Evaluation of Factors Responsible for Road Accidents in India by Fuzzy AHP
India is a developing country fighting against its population growth. There has been an exponential growth in the number of automobiles in India to meet the needs of growing population. Road safety is one of the major concern in our country. Although the
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Abstract India is a developing country fighting against its population growth. There has been an exponential growth in the number of automobiles in India to meet the needs of growing population. Road safety is one of the major concern in our country. Although the Indian government has been trying to tackle this issue for several years, yet there is a substantial increase in the number of road crashes which has become the major cause of death. The Methodology adopted for identifying the most crucial factor of road accidents is based upon Fuzzy-AHP technique. A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) model is constructed which takes seven different criteria as inputs from different literature reviews and practical investigations to assign different priorities/weights to the seven criteria. The weights of criteria are usually characterized by fuzzy numbers. In this paper data for 35 States was collected from National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, Global status report on road safety 2013. Finally, the decision is made by the computational process and effectiveness of Fuzzy AHP. Keywords MCDM
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Accident rates in India
1 Introduction The frequency of road accidents in India is very high and is increasing at a very rapid rate, due to which India ranks second in road accidents. Every hour 16 die on Indian roads while one major accident takes place every minute and most of them are due to drink and drive cases. In 2013 over 1,37,000 individuals were dead in road accidents. There were about 1.7 lakh crashes due to over-speeding which lead S. Nanda Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun, India e-mail: [email protected] S. Singh (✉) Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 G.M. Perez et al. (eds.), Networking Communication and Data Knowledge Engineering, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies 3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4585-1_15
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to 49,000 deaths. As indicated by street activity wellbeing specialists, the real number of setbacks might be higher than what is recorded, the same number of auto collisions goes unreported. States like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka contributed more than 40% of the casualty. Among 53 uber urban areas, Delhi recorded the most number of fatalities at 2,199 while Chennai enlisted 1,046 similar accidents. Bhopal and Jaipur ranked third and fourth asserting 1,015 and 844 deaths respectively. By far most of most climate-related accidents happen on wet asphalt and amid precipitation: 73% on wet asphalt and 46% amid precipitation. A much littler rate of climate-related accidents happen amid winter conditions: 17% amid snow or hail, 13% happen on frosty asphalt and 14% of climate-related accidents occur on cold or slushy asphalt. Just 3% happen within the sight of mist. Hence, it becomes essential to analyze various factors responsible for road accidents but it is a
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