ABSTRACT

Road Safety Audit is the official and one of the best methods to examine the safety performance
and accident potential of newly made as well as of present roads. It is an effective and very
productive method and efficient method used to improve the road infrastructure. It is already
proven that it has the ability to reduce the accidents and thus can save life of many people’s
around the world. From planning to development phase, construction stage, operation and
maintenance stage it can be implemented to every stage of the project. During the design period
its proper implementation, maintenance, operation and design is very crucial in project highways
from safety point of view of road user with the roads. Thus, safer roads which ultimately leads to
safer life.
In this thesis, crash information for the year 2013 to 2016 of Patiala has been gathered,
investigated and marked .Analysis of accidents on the basis of nature, sex, and collision spot has
been done. Crash matrix of impacting vehicle with victim vehicle has been prepared by
analyzing the type of vehicles involves in the accident.
The point with maximum number of accidents taking place has been called as black spots as their
value of accident severity index is maximum in these spots. These spotted points are of real
concern as here the accidents are frequently taking place. After analysis it is concluded Dukh
Nivaran chowk, Bus stand chowk, Rajpura road and lakkadmandi intersection, Rajpura Road and
New Bypass Intersection and fountain chowk are the five locations which are marked as black
spots. These spots are visually inspected and various deficiencies have been noted and their
recommendations have also been suggested.

Safety Audit and speed analysis has also been performed on 92 spots including all the black
spots and other section which is considered as major accidental road stretches comprising nearly
15 % of major road network of Patiala. Their scores concluded that all the roads of Patiala
belong to the poor category as per code of “Urban Road Safety Audit” 2013 by Ministry of
Urban Development. Mostly footpath is absent on every roads including arterial roads. Provision
for cycle accessibility and lighting is absent on every roads of Patiala.