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Adoor–Kazhakkoottam section of length 80 km, part of State Highway 1 in Kerala, carries the significant volume of traffic providing regional connectivity and witnesses increasing road fatalities. The scope of the study is limited for identification and prioritization of crash-prone locations in the study corridor. Crash data collected from the police stations were compiled and geocoded. A total of 85 locations were identified as hazardous locations on the study corridor and were evaluated based on crash severity index. A total of 34 priority crash-prone locations were identified and were classified into three orders of priority. The total length of the priority crash-prone locations was around one-fifth of the total length of study corridor. It was also found that around 56% of total crashes occurred at the identified locations. Characteristics of individual crash-prone locations have been established to identify common deficiency with respect to other locations.
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The authors acknowledge the support rendered by Kerala Police in providing the crash information. The authors also acknowledge Kerala State Transport Project for the support rendered for the smooth conduct of the study.
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Sam, E., Shaheem, S., Chandran, A., Radhakrishnan, D. (2022). Identification and Prioritization of Crash-Prone Locations for Selected Road Corridor in Kerala. In: Parida, M., Maji, A., Velmurugan, S., Das, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India . Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 220. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9925-2_3
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