IDENTIFICATION OF ACCIDENT BLACK SPOTS ON NATIONAL HIGHWAY

The simultaneous increase in population and the number of vehicles led the road authorities to get more focus on the road safety improvements. According to the recent road accident data, the highly populated Maharashtra state has reported the highest accident rate which calls for the need of safety improvements. For this purpose, Identification of accident prone location is considered as the first step in road safety improvements. This paper mainly aims to identify the accident prone locations along Amravati- Nagpur road stretch from Asian highway 46. The top accident prone spots were selected as black spots based on Weighted Severity Index Method and some suggestions are made to improve the transportation system.