DESIGNING OF ROADS,CARS,HELMETS and APPS

FOR ROAD SAFETY.

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Different designs of roads

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 Clearly a badly constructed

 A well constructed road on the
road tends to experience
other hand, tends to be in good
more wear over the time,
condition over long time,
thus getting pits & holes
providing safer routes for
which may lead to accidents
passengers.

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 Preventing accidents due to road
construction
• 'Road Angels' is programmed to warn drivers when they are
approaching known Accident Black Spots.  They make use of the
latest GPS [Global Positioning Satellite] Technology.
• Roads should be properly marked. Proper sign boards should be
installed.
• Signals for road crossings at important busy places where a large
number of people have to cross the road everyday

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• Humps should be provided at all important places,
accident prone areas. Construction, size and shape of the
Humps should be scientific.
• Obstructions on road sides, caused by unauthorized
construction / road side sales should be eliminated.
• Sometimes, even cutting of grass to increase visibility can
help save many lives.

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 Condition of road in India
• India has a total of about 2 million kilometers of roads out of which
960,000 kilometers are surfaced roads and about 1 million kilometers
of roads in India are the poorly constructed ones.
• India is home to quite a large rural population. Most of the rural areas
in India do not have access to all weather roads and hence have a
tough time during the monsoons.
• Currently India's annual expenditure on the road sector is around Rs
20,000-30,000 crore . One of the major reasons behind this huge
expenditure on maintaining roads is due to the problems of
overloading and poor maintenance.

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 Apps helping in saving life from road
accidents
• ROAD SAFETY SOS –
It has several different buttons red,
yellow and green which appears after
an accident through which emergency
numbers can be contacted.

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• SAFELY HOME–
Safely Home is a mobile application to
take care of all your driving woes. The
app tries to automatically detect road
accidents if installed on your phone to
provide you with emergency and early
assistance

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 • CHANDIGARH ECOCABS-
. Chandigarh Ecocabs is a community based
dial-a-rickshaw service for providing
better access of cycle rickshaw to the
residents of Chandigarh.
This apps lets you find an Ecocab
rickshaw operator nearby your area and
you can directly call them to your
doorstep. Operator details include their
Name, photo, mobile number and the list
of the areas where they are available.
This app is helpful in reducing pedestrian
accidents during road crossing.

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 iOnRoad-
iOnRoad improves driving in real-time
using the power of modern computer
vision algorithms and
smart-phone cameras.
The iOnRoad Android and iOS Apps
provides a range of personal driving
assistance functions including
augmented driving,collision warning and
“black-box” like video recording and
have generated close to a million
downloads

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 HELMET
• Helmets are useful as safety gear to prevent injuries in an
uncontrolled environment. A helmet can prevent or minimize injury
to the head and brain.
• Helmets designed to handle major crash energy generally contain a
layer of crushable foam.
• When you crash and hit a hard surface, the foam part of a helmet
crushes, controlling the crash energy and extending your head's
stopping time by about six thousandths of a second (6 ms) to reduce
the peak impact to the brain
• Rotational forces and internal strains are likely to be reduced.

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INDIAN ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN
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 • In a lab test, graphs of the impact energy the brain
sees look like this, with a smooth curve extending
over 6ms for the good helmet ,

About half way up that spike is A huge spike like the

where permanent brain one above for a
damage begins bare head

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 Designing of cars.
• Car safety features
• Moving cars have kinetic energy. As energy cannot be created or
destroyed, when a car brakes its kinetic energy changes into heat
energy. The brakes heat up and then transfer the energy to the
surroundings. Modern cars also have safety features that absorb
kinetic energy in collisions. These typically include:
seat belts
air bags
crumple zones

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• Anti-lock braking system (ABS) – prevents skidding

allowing the driver to remain in control. The vehicle
stops more quickly as there's more friction between the
road and tyres.
• Traction control - prevents skidding while accelerating
so the car can quickly escape a dangerous situation.
• Safety cage – strengthens the cabin section to protect
people in a roll-over accident.

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There are other features designed to help prevent accidents by
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reducing distractions while driving. They include:

• Electric windows – make it easier to open and close windows
• Cruise control – helps reduce accidental speeding
• Paddle shift controls – allows the driver to keep both hands on
the steering wheel while changing gear or radio stations
• Adjustable seats – makes the driver more comfortable

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 Some more measures :-
• New gadgets are to be developed for collision prevention and should be fitted on all
vehicle. For example, gadgets can be developed to automatically slow down the
vehicle, if safe distance commensurate with the speed of the vehicle in front is not
maintained.
• Children below a certain age should not be permitted to do cycling in busy roads /
roads where heavy vehicles are plying.
• Refreshment parlors should be made available at (say) every  50 / 100 k.m. on all
national highways and truck / heavy vehicle drivers should be forced to refresh by
having a face wash or by having a cup of tea or coffee.
• Advertisement boards and other items that may obstruct visibility at junctions,
curvatures and other parts of the roads should be removed.

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INDIAN ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN

An Initiative of IIT Delhi and TRIPP
INDIAN ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN
An Initiative of IIT Delhi and TRIPP