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Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety Lecture-1 Basic Civil Engineering Unit-5

Transportation plays a major role in human civilization by enabling the mobility needed to meet basic needs and drive development. Transportation engineering aims to ensure movement of people and goods is safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally friendly. Road safety methods are needed because road accidents cause injuries and deaths due to issues like speeding, drunk driving, distraction, and lack of safety gear or road awareness. Various modes of transportation include road, rail, air and water.

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Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety Lecture-1 Basic Civil Engineering Unit-5

Transportation plays a major role in human civilization by enabling the mobility needed to meet basic needs and drive development. Transportation engineering aims to ensure movement of people and goods is safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally friendly. Road safety methods are needed because road accidents cause injuries and deaths due to issues like speeding, drunk driving, distraction, and lack of safety gear or road awareness. Various modes of transportation include road, rail, air and water.

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Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety

Lecture-1
Basic Civil Engineering
Unit-5

Prepared by
Dr. Anu Singh
Assistant Professor, Women Engineering College Ajmer,
Rajasthan
Transportation
• Mobility is the basic need of human and fulfils all the basic need
of humanity.
• Transportation plays major role in the development of the human
civilization.
Transportation engineering is the planning, construction and
maintenance of transportation systems or facilities.
Objective of transport engineering
• Ensuring Safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and
environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
• Developed a great communication system.
• Minimize losses of time and money from traffic jam.
Fundamental factors of transportation
The choice of method of transport depends on six fundamental factors
• Types of goods
• Distance involved
• Speed and security of transport
• Dimension
• Urgency of the order
• Cost involved
Traffic and Road Safety
Road traffic safety refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk
of a person using the road network for being killed or seriously injured.
The users of a road include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, their
passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport, mainly buses
and trams.
But due to ignorance of safety on the roads there are accident happening
on the road causing injuries and deaths.
• Road accident is most unwanted thing to happen to a road user. Main cause of
accidents and crashes are Over Speeding
• Drunken Driving
• Distractions to Driver
• Red Light Jumping
• Avoiding Safety Gears like Seat belts and Helmets
• Unawareness of road rules, regulation and signs.
Steps to be taken for preventing Road
Accidents
• 90 % of accidents can be avoided by strict enforcement of speed
limits.
• Existing speed limits should be brought down further.
• Heavy Penalty should be imposed on all those who cross speed limits.
If this is strictly implemented, nobody will dare to go at high speed.
• Helmet should be made compulsory by law in every state. Helmet
should be made compulsory for back seat riders also.
• Ensure that the money recovered as Road Tax is fully utilized for the
construction /maintenance of roads.
Various Modes of Transportation
• Road transport
• Railways
• Air transport
• Water transport
Thank you

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