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Increased economic activity raised the consumption levels of the people across the India. This created scope for increase in the travel and transportation demanding a greater number of vehicles. The increase in the vehicles since last ten years has put a lot of pressure on the existing roads and ultimately resulting in increased rate of accidents. Blackspots are occurred at urban areas due to increased rate of vehicles, shorter width of roads and defective geometry of intersections. Blackspots are the locations in the city where the accident rate observed to be high. Therefore, there is need identify such locations of the urban area. For the present research, Chandrapur city in Maharashtra, India was selected. Accident data of last four year (2015- 2018) was obtained from police station. Weighted severity index (WSI) method and statistical analysis is used for identifying the accident blackspots. After field observations and interaction with the public, some improvements are suggested for improving the accident blackspot.

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The use of traffic signals is the common practice in every cities having heavy traffic volume that is on clogged intersection. The signal phases are different at various intersections. The cycle time also differs as per traffic density at each intersection. Out somewhere it happens that there is green signal & no vehicle on the route and despite that somewhere there is long queue although there is red signal. The proposed system first targets scattering any queue that was developed during red span and reduction in travel time. This study leads to the change in phases and redesign of present signal system, which not only gives a reduction in the queue length but also reduces travel time and decrease in fuel consumption. This change will positively results in improving traffic efficiency.

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The motto of this study is to suggest the best possible NMT infrastructure at the intersection having mixed traffic flow along with the heavy traffic leading towards the congestion, delay and accidents. Variety Square, Nagpur has been selected for study purpose, this square is having major landmarks contributing towards continuous increase in the traffic flow and the current infrastructure is up-to-date to meet the today's demand. It has been seen or observed that the non availability of proper NMT infrastructure leading towards the decrease in the contribution of NMT users, Which is indirectly forcing the user to use motorized transportation over NMT? This behaviour is adversely affecting the environment resulting into the increasing carbon footprint, sudden change in environment, pollution, increase in green house gases etc. It is high time now to consider the junction improvement plan as the short term improvement. So, traffic volume study is carried out at the variety square by manual count method. So, the main objective of this study is to propose the foot over bridge at variety square, Nagpur to eliminate the traffic congestion delay conflict between pedestrian and the moving vehicle and to decrease the accident rate, which will eventually increase the contribution of the NMT users by providing promising safety.

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