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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

9.1 THE CONCEPT OF ROAD ACCIDENT AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Traffic management is the management and controlling of transportation modes, carriers and
services. It is often used to describe the adjustment process of the usage of road system and
transportation, to fulfill the specific objectives without any road construction needed. Traffic
management include the technique that use to make the movement of goods and humans become easier
by using the existing road and direct road users towards a safer and more efficient use of the other
existing infrastructure and also improve environment.

Traffic management focuses on how to use the existing roads and infrastructures to maximize the
effectiveness of the system to reduce traffic ingestion. Traffic management can be in long term and also
in short term. It is therefore an essential element in increasing the efficiency and safety of transport
networks and operations

9.1.1 The factors causing accident:
a. Human
b. Road condition
c. Vehicle

Human Factor
Percent of accident for human factor contribute 85.74 %.

Factor:-
 Factors of vision, hearing, comfort, fatigue and emotional drivers.
 Hasty attitude and selfish
 Driving while intoxicated, unreal @ sleepy.
 Interfere with driver attention.
 Pedestrians do not obey the traffic rules

Figure 9-1: Human Factors
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