“STUDY OF CAB DRIVER CHARACTERISTICS AND ACCIDENT PRONENESS”

As you would expect, one of the India's largest and densely populated states, Utter Pradesh's city, Allahabad, is holy religious place, educational hub and historical but it is also noisy, polluted, crowded and typically chaotic. The streets of the city are congested and encroached by other activities. Bus services in particular have deteriorated and their efficiency of service have been declining thus persons turn to individual vehicle because of this the number of vehicle in the streets is increasing. This result not only restricts the flow of traffic, but also puts in danger the road user's life. The total no of accident as well as related fatality in the city is increasing over the year. This paper attempts to analyze the road accidents in Allahabad using annual data from the year 2012-2017.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows-section-1 provides an overview of road accident scenario in Allahabad, Utter Pradesh and India. Section 2 deals with the cause of accident, type of accident and black-spot of Allahabad District. In section 3 deals the questionnaire and analysis of survey. Finally sections 4 summarize the report with result and future scope of the study. The methodology adopted includes collecting the secondary data from the concerned authority, conducting physical surveys (primary data) and analyzing the data for accident prediction model by logistic regression method. Regression analysis also allows us to compare the effects of variables measured on different scales.