Kolkata Traffic Police Logistics & Road Safety Sumit Kumar IPS Deputy Commissioner of Police Traffic Department, Kolkata
Comparative Fatal Non Fatal Period Fatal Non-Fatal 2014 450 3604 2015 422 3317 2016 407 3182 2016 (till 31st July) 239 1917 2017 329 2559 2017 (till 31st July) 2018 (till 31st July) 200 1731 173 1259
Fatal Accidents on Flyovers 14 12 10 8 6 2016 2017 2018 4 2 0 AJC Bose Road Flyover CGR Road Flyover Maa Flyover Vidyasagar Setu 2016 5 2 7 12 2017 0 0 2 1 2018 1 0 2 2
% of Road Users who are Victims of RTAs More that 50% of the victims are PEDESTRIANS Slow Moving Users 5% 2 Wheeler users 28% Pedestrian 51% Oth Passenger 12%
Installation of Speed Cameras and modern equipments High speed corridors where Speed Cameras and Speed Signages were placed, which led to massive reduction in RTAs Contactless Prosecution with instant messaging strategy works. Can be made more effective by improving database of actual vehicle owners and mobile numbers
Auto 2% Goods Vehicle 8% Bus 1% Taxi/L- Taxi 2% Buses comprise 1% of the total vehicles registered They cause 27% of all RTAs Goods Vehicle comprise 8% of the total vehicles registered 2 wheeler 65% 2 Wheelers are responsible for 15% of all RTAs Private Car 22% % of all vehicles registered around Kolkata They cause 25% of all RTAs 2 wheeler 15% Private Car 10% Taxi/ L- Taxi 6% Ambulan ce 1% Unknown 14% Auto 2% Bus 27% Goods Vehicle 25% % of all vehicles involved in RTAs
% of Offending Vehicles causing RTAs Bigger vehicles - BUSES & GOODS VEHICLES contribute to more than 50% of RTAs Reason Remedy 1. Buses compete for passengers 2. Poor compliance to payment of fine 3. Blind spot issues 4. Vehicle Fitness issues (Poor Control) 5. Buses not stopping at designated places 6. Pedestrian management 1. Enforcement (Sending violation messages to drivers. Reward Punishment) 2. Linking of FC to clearing pending cases 3. PIS at Designated Bus stops 4. Putting up Boom Barriers etc 5. Education of Drivers Bigger vehicles have a BLIND SPOT to the left of the driver Pilot Project on KP vehicles to have CONVEX MIRRORS or CAMERA to aid the vision of the drivers
100 90 Trend in RTAs at different hours of the day 87 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 56 58 27 26 42 61 31 54 64 26 48 68 69 21 59 42 70 10 0 00:00-04:00 04:01-08:00 08:01-12:00 12:01-16:00 16:01-20:00 20:01-00:00 2018 2017 2016
Initiatives taken to curb RTAs Education Emergency Response Enforcement Engineering
Education Mass education programme Jaaago Kolkata Total number of Schools 366 Driver Type Enrolment Count Total number of School Students 96,932 Total number of Traffic Guard 25 App Cabs 10,451 Auto Driver 15,074 Bus Driver 2,499 Taxi Driver 16,060 Total number of Drivers 86,486 Total School Session conducted in School 1,860 Truck (HGV) 2,514 Truck (LGV) 18.117 Truck (MGV) 2,916 Total Drivers Session conducted in Traffic Guards 6,622 Truck Driver 2,673 Two Wheeler 16,182
Emergency Response KARMA Kolkata Accident Rescue And Medical Assistance 29 Ambulances 15 strategic locations 24 X 7 Response Person Attended Released After First Aid Admitted to Hospital Patients Transported in addition to the call 2010-2012 3,280 421 2,859 2012 2,570 458 2,112 2013 2,965 531 2,434 2014 2,752 404 2,348 2015 2,538 386 2,152 2016 3,388 952 2,740 304 2017 3,961 1,072 3,237 348 2018 (till 31.07.18) 2047 536 1643 138 Total 23,495 4,760 19,479 790
Enforcement Period 183 MV Act (Over Speeding) 185 MV Act (Drunken Driving) 2015 7,309 1,755 2016 16,583 1,829 01/01/17 to 30/04/17 44,511 2017 01/05/17 to 31/12/17 4,71,433 3,887 Speed Signage & Camera Installed for the first time in 2017 2018 (31 st July) 3,45,288 2,681
Enforcement against helmetless riding Period 128/129 MV Act 2015 1,38,435 2016 1,85,492 2017 6,44,583 2018 (till 31 st July) 5,13,415
Suspension of Driving Licence 2017 2018 (31 st July) Total DL Suspended 2456 1231 D/Ls suspension for Over speeding >100 Notices issued for over 9588 5090 speeding
Engineering Interventions Creation of Bus Lanes using Spring posts Putting up Median Dividers Identification of engineering issues with vehicles Conducting Pilot with cheap retrofit solutions and proposing policy intervention. Passenger Information System to encourage passengers to board/get down at designated bus stops Boom Barriers for safe crossing from designated points
Pedestrian Management Boom Barriers - Pilot Project Pilot locations AJC Bose Rd Chowringhee Rd X-ing Exide X- ing Strand Rd Raja Woodmunt Street (Burrabazar) Sync with Pedestrian Green Time Foot Over Bridges Working closely with allied agencies KMC/ KMDA etc. for setting up Foot Over Bridges with Escalators at both ends, for convenience of passengers
Centrally Managed Network Signalling System Live Traffic Data Signal on Road Signal on Road Time offset Central Command & Control Signal on Road
Suggestion PVD Database of Actual Vehicle owners mapped with their mobile numbers need to be cleaned up. Simplifying vehicle transfer procedure Fitness for Buses & other public carriers good condition Tyre, Brake etc. Installation of convex mirror/cctv in front of driver may be useful to make viewable the blind spots. In order to avoid competition in buses, the number of buses plying on a route need to be rationalised depending on the demand along that route.