Addis Ababa Road Traffic Accident Study And Possible Engineering Solutions Case Study Of Akaki-kaliti Sub City Roads

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This study aimed at examining the road traffic accident and possible engineering solutions: withrnparticular focus on Akaki-Kaliti Sub-City roads. To meet the objective of the research thernresearcher has given attention to collect accident data, road data, and traffic data from AddisrnAbaba Police Commission, Akaki-Kaliti Sub-City Traffic Office, ERA (Ethiopian RoadsrnAuthority), from Addis Ababa Road and Transport Office, and field observations. Calculationrnand model selection of Black spot identification go with the land characteristics, objective needs,rnand basing other real factors required consideration the area of the study. Hence, the results ofrnthe study showed the existence of large difference in road traffic accident victims among drivers,rnpassengers, and pedestrian in their sex and age levels. The Male drivers, passengers, andrnpedestrians were the most affected one as compared to their female counterparts. Moreover, thernresult confirmed that road traffic accident (death, serious injuries and light injuries) in the cityrnmostly affected age categories of between 18-30 regardless of their sex, and starts decliningrnafter age 31. Consequently, the road traffic accidents were extremely affecting the economicallyrnactive citizens i.e., youths and young adult groups. The road traffic accident trends in the AkakirnKaliti Sub-City roads by day of a week revealed significant growth of the severity of thernaccidents from 2010/11 to 2012/13 in all days of the week except in Sunday. Though it varies inrnhours of a day, and hence the crash has reached its maximum points when pedestrians,rnpassengers and drivers' frequency of movement has increased, especially after 6:00 AM andrnreached the maximum accidents at 10:00 AM. Most of these crushes happened in CentralrnBusiness District (CBD) and market land use areas with collisions like sideswipe, rear end,rncollision with pedestrians,broad side, and head on collusion. Most of these accidents occurredrnon Road junction like midblock than the Y– junction and T – junctions. Besides, the highestrnaccident rates were associated with double carriageway in straight and level road character.rnDepending on these road traffic accidents and the model used areas like Saris Abo roundabout,rnTirunesh Beijing Hospital (Near the Bridge), Customs Office Entrance, Total (Kaliti ShoarnBakery), Korki (Medroc) Entrance, Cheralia Biscuit Factory, and Akaki Kela (Near UNISA)rnwere identified as Black spot areas, since they experienced the highest accident rates. Hence,rnrecommendations of Engineering, Enforcement, Encouragement, and Education like, adequaternprovision of Road safety education, offering of definite land use policy, Quality drivers' training,rnand testing, standardized and prerequisite criteria for drives with regard to their educationalrnbackground and good behavior ,traffic signals , traffic lights and their frequent technical failurernshould be solved, raised zebra crossing, marking zebra crossing, prohibit overtaking,rnconstructing side walkway, widening of the pavement, streetlights, installation of marking andrnsigns, and some areas also consider adequate median road marking, redesign and providingrnadditional-way movement have been forwarded to alleviate the problems.

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