Comparative Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents of Motorways and Highways of Pakistan. (Case Study of Road Section from Islamabad to Lahore)

Abstract

Road traffic accidents is one of the major issues in Pakistan. Like other developing countries, there are a lot of accidents occurred on every day which results in great losses of precious life, injuries as well as public and private property damage. The expected increase in road traffic and magnitude of the accidents, there will occur a great loss of social and economic losses. This research study, addresses the comparison of road traffic accidents analysis of Highways and Motorways of Pakistan. The road section from Islamabad to Lahore is selected for the study such that M-2 and N-5 North (North-II and North-III). In this study the road traffic accidents data are analyzed in detail like time wise, sector, beat, direction, severity, casualty, severity index, weather wise etc. for both the road sections. The accidents occurring pattern, trend are find out on these sections. The vehicle that is most vulnerable to accidents on motorway is car while on highway motorcycle. The causes of accidents on motorway and highway are carelessness, dosing at wheel, brake failure, tyre burst, pedestrian crossing etc. The remedial measures are also suggested to counter these causes include proper education of traffic safety to road users. This can be done with the help of print and electronic media. Dozing alarms are used to prevent accidents due to causes of dozing. Climbing lanes must provided to prevent brake failure accidents. Pedestrian over head bridges and under passes are constructed in order to avoid pedestrian crossing accidents.