GENDER BASED ASSESSMENT OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN MYSORE CITY

R Shiva Kumar

doi:10.53989/bu.ga.v9i1.1

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v9i1.1

Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-4

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GENDER BASED ASSESSMENT OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN MYSORE CITY

R Shiva Kumar¹

¹Guest Faculty, Department of Geography, Jnanabharathi Campus, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Received Date:11 February 2020, Accepted Date:22 May 2020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are growing is an alarming rate throughout the world. The present paper has tried to mapping and analysis the road traffic accidents male and female occupants within Mysore City in the year 2013. The secondary data were collected relating to accidents registered with Krishnaraja, Devaraja and Narasimaraja Traffic Police stations in Mysore city. During one-year study period of Mysore city 2013 occurs 902 cases of road traffic accidents. There are 768 Male occupants and 205 Female occupants road traffic accident has plotted within Mysore city used Arc Gis 10.3 software. In adding, a determination also made to know the percentage of cause of male and female occupants road traffic accidents.

Keywords: occupants; road traffic accidents; GIS

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Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka