This document discusses road safety initiatives on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway. It covers the 3E approach to road safety: engineering, education, and enforcement. For engineering, it discusses improving infrastructure like signs, audits, and separating traffic. For education, it talks about campaigns to increase awareness. For enforcement, it focuses on enforcing traffic laws. It also discusses the roles of vehicles, road infrastructure, and human behavior in road crashes. Finally, it outlines various actions taken on the expressway like installing signs and barriers, surveys, training, and ensuring safety equipment and protocols are followed.

1. Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway
August 2010
Safety Initiatives

2. Road Safety And Its Various Dimensions
Some of the fundamental things about road safety as per
contemporary thinking on the subject
• Crashes create a considerable economic burden to
society (in terms of lives and money lost), and they
are not an inevitable consequence of economic
growth.
• Road crash injury (largely predictable and
preventable), is a human-made problem amenable
to rational analysis and countermeasures.
• Tested, technically simple remedies can produce
considerable returns for a relatively small
investment.

3. Road Safety And Its Various Dimensions (cont.)
• Road crashes often result from a series of root
causes: the vehicle (5 to 10 per cent of crashes),
road infrastructure (10 to 20 per cent of crashes)
and road user behavior (responsible at least in part
for some 80 to 90 per cent of road crashes).
• The interaction between these causes is important
and therefore one must consider the vehicle/the
road, and the user as a system. The interactions
between users and the physical elements are
critical. Road and vehicle design must allow for
human errors.

4. Road Safety And Its Various Dimensions (cont.)
Road Crashes cost estimated 1 to 3 % of GDP every year
which is equivalent to US$2-4 billion every day
Year Total No. of
Road
accidents
( in numbers)
Total No. of
killed
(in numbers)
Total No. of
persons
injured
( in numbers)
Total No. of
Regd. motor
vehicle
( in thousand)
2000 391449 78911 399300 48857
2001 405637 80888 405200 54991
2002 407497 84674 408700 58924
2003 406726 85998 435100 67007
2004 429910 92618 464600 72718
2005 439255 94968 465282 81502
2006 460920 105749 496481 89618
2007 479216 114444 513340 98000*

5. 3E Approach For Safety

6. Engineering
Engineering
This aspect aims to improve the existing transportation infrastructure
and factor in safety when designing new transportation infrastructure.
• Identifying and developing solutions for known road safety problem areas.
• Road Standards- Reviewing the standards for road development and moving
towards a safety conscious road form, customized for local conditions.
• Conducting road safety audits-reviewing road designs from a safety point of view
DEVICES
• Traffic Control Devices
• Signage
• VMS
• Road Conditions(sharp Edge,Holes,Patches,Obstacle etc)
• At the time of (Special Condition)
– Vehicle Breakdown
– Vehicle Accident
– RRM work

7. The Vehicle
• Modern vehicles are considerably safer than older
models. Technical safety standards and annual vehicle
testing are compulsory in high-income countries. In
contrast, low and middle-income countries often have a
substandard vehicle fleet, which exacerbate the road
safety problem. This is particularly true for commercial
vehicles such as taxis, buses and trucks. Effective and
independent technical testing, therefore, must be strictly
enforced where the vital safety functions of vehicles,
such as braking, shock absorbers and lighting are
concerned.

8. The Vehicle (cont.)
• Another matter of concern is the overloading of
commercial vehicles. It is essential to have regulations
establishing maximum loads and ensure that regular
checks take place. Greater improvement of the public
and commercial transport sector is one of the best ways
of avoiding such overloading. We regularly coordinate
with state transport authorities in our endeavor to
channelize focused efforts in this area on Delhi Gurgaon
Expressway.

9. The Road Infrastructure
• The road infrastructure, including road surface, road
signs and design, is a significant safety factor. Road
designs must recognize that humans make mistakes and
try to minimize the consequences of human error.
• On existing roads, these improvements should first be
made at high risk spots, where many crashes occur,
especially at the entry and exit of built up areas and
areas of high activity (such as markets and schools). This
is a task that is given significant attention at Delhi
Gurgaon Expressway.

10. The Road Infrastructure (cont.)
• It has been shown that some low cost infrastructure
improvements can substantially reduce the occurrence of
road crashes and their severity. Examples of
improvements include the separation of different types
of traffic, better road marking and road signs, safer paths
for pedestrians and two wheelers, the construction of
sidewalks or pavements and more visible pedestrian
crossings, and slower traffic speeds (with the use of road
humps, rumble strips and roundabouts). At DGSCL, we
make regular efforts in this direction by cutting glaze
through greenery, installing impact absorbers, focused
effort on separating different types of traffic and better
signage.

11. Education
This Aspect aims to educate the office staff and user of the
facility
How???
• Leaflets
• Pamphlets
• Safety Campaigning
• Help and Awareness to commuters
Education

12. Human Behavior
The behavior of road users is, in fact, the main cause of
road crashes and road crash injury and death. Among the
many risk factors involved in causing road crashes or
increasing injury severity, the four most common are:
1. The failure to wear seat belts
2. The failure to wear crash helmets
3. Driving at excessive or unsuitable speeds; and
4. Driving under the influence of alcohol.

13. Human Behavior (cont.)
• Countries which have introduced targeted action plans to
combat at least one of the above risk factors have
succeeded in reducing road crash fatalities significantly
within a few years. The other substantial risk factors are
driver fatigue, the use of mobile telephones, failure to
observe safety distances and a lack of visual aids for
drivers.
• There is also a lack of awareness of the basic rules of the
Highway Code, which users should comply with, such as
the rules for giving way, overtaking, traffic lights and no
entry signs.

14. Human Behavior (cont.)
• One of the short term measures that can be taken is to
launch large scale information campaigns highlighting the
facts, enforcement and penalties related to the major
risk factors noted above.
• In the longer term, road safety education should be
included as a part of the school curriculum and the
quality of teaching at driving schools should be evaluated
and improved where necessary.

15. Human Behavior (cont.)
• We at DGSCL are launching focused drives from time to
time aimed at changing driver behavior and inculcating
good practices. The latest in this series is a campaign to
be launched in association with IRTE shortly. Taken
together our efforts have succeeded in significantly
reducing crash related damages and injuries significantly
on Delhi Gurgaon Expressway in the last two years and
we are committed to affecting further improvements in
this area through concerted action.

16. Enforcement
• This Aspect of 3 E aims on enforcing the Traffic Law
– Use of Reflective Jackets
– Follow Traffic Rules
– Speed Limit
– Traffic Police Coordination
– Ensuring Bike in Service Lanes and Cars in Main Carriage Way
Enforcement

17. HSE Policy
The company HSE policy states:
1. Protect the Health & Safety of all persons and commuters at
corridor.
2. Comply at all times with the relevant statutory and
Contractual Health and Safety requirements.
3. Provide emergency response to all victims at corridor.
4. Establish effective communication on Health & Safety
matters with all relevant parties involved in the Project
works.
5. The company provides necessary training and support to
staff to ensure that they are able to fulfill the commitments
given in this policy statement.

18. Actions Taken
Erect signages to caution proper speed limits, advise
against two wheeler/slow traffic ingress, pedestrian
crossing, accident prone area – extra caution etc., at
the points advised by traffic police
Painting of barricades and lanes near plazas as per
traffic police advice. (work started)
Review the Safety Audit Report done on NHAI behalf by
CRRI and action the points immediately actionable.
•Also a review of IRC guidelines as well as Highway Safety
Manuals from major resources
DSC Expressway
Smooth Road Ahead

19. Actions Taken
Journey risk management survey did with the
help of interceptor from 13+700 to 42+000 at
NH-8
Coordination meetings with nearby villages
(viz. Rajokari, Samalkha, Kapashera,
Dundahera etc.) for educating villagers
regarding road safety.
To reduce the risk of traffic accidents at NH-8
through raising awareness among the local
residence and the user of road, a najor project
underway with IRTE

20. Actions Taken
Speed survey done at 7 different
locations
Provide road safety refresher training to all
marshals posted in NH-8
Digital Map of the road section is being
created with the help of GPS device.
DELHI (Dhaula Kaun)DELHI (Dhaula Kaun)
GURGAON (42 MS toll Plaza)GURGAON (42 MS toll Plaza)
Left
side
of
the
Main
Expr
ess
way

21. Actions Taken
Queuing study and spot speed study done with
consulting engineering group at Hero Honda
Chowlk.
Installed Shock absorber drums at each
Entry/Exit point on NH-8
Installed Red reflective tape on vertical legs of all
crash barriers from 13+700 to 42 Km both side on
NH-8

22. Actions Taken
Ensuring best practice norms for parking of works
related vehicles on the highway (Tankers/cranes etc.,)
and men at work
Revision in TRIG/Denever contracts on ‘Service Level
Agreement’ basis to ensure progressive reduction in
slow traffic ingress at vantage points, and other
safety related issues related to vandalism etc.
Special drive initiation related to discouraging cash
users in tag lanes, preventing chances of bumper hits
by fast moving tag vehicle traffic.
Excellen
ce

23. Actions Taken
Instituting a system so that all staff members on the
highway/in the lanes wear safety jackets at all times.
•A safety jacket to be part of the welcome kit of each
new joinee in the company.
•Ensure a system that all visitors on the highway/in
the lanes wear a safety jacket/hard hat at all times.
All the bull noses on the highway (at exits etc.) to be
affixed with reflective tape and possibly blinkers.
Ensure testing of fire safety equipment at diesel
storage area, major electrical installations etc.,

24. Actions Taken
Ensuring DG set connectivity for traffic lights. Shifting
them from median to sides
Improving availability and effectiveness of patrolling
routines.
Ensuring better availability and correct usages of
spring posts and plastic safety cones.
Accelerating replacement of damaged concrete
bollards.
Painting of jersey barriers near the plazas and
ensuring better availability of MS barriers at km 42
plaza.

25. Actions Taken
Replacing deormed crash barriers.
Ensuring repairs to the recovery vehicle.
Having electrical installations checked for correct
insulation/circuit breakers/fuses etc.
lining up a possible safety audit post our ramp up
efforts.
Central control for VMU units to flash special messages

26. Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway
August 2010
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