Maina, Ben Rodgers (1978) Road Safety in Nairobi "An Analysis of Road Accidents on Nairobi Road Network". Masters thesis, University of Nairobi.
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Abstract
Traffic delays and congestions are the price that towns and cities are paying as a result of inefficient streets and highway operations. This inefficiency also contributes directly to the problem of traffic accidents which kill and injure people and destroy property. The main causes of urban congestion delays and conflicts resulting in road accidents appear to be overcrowding of population and economic activities into small areas of land with land uses that have maximized transport requirements. The concentration of employment and other activities in the central area of cities create volumes of people and goods movements that become difficult to accommodate effectively. This thesis attempts to examine the problems of road safety in Nairobi with close reference to road accidents occurring in Nairobi's road network. This is done by the use of descriptive methods with simple analysis which exposes the problem of road safety to come up with viable and implementable solutions to the problems. The study tries to trace the causes of the road safety problem through examining such factors as land use arrangements, number of vehicles, population distribution, the road network, the peak hour problems, the road junctions etc. These factors pave^/ the way to closer analysis of the causes of accident, the types of accidents, the dangerous roads etc. In conclusion the study makes it clear that road safety is a concern for everybody and that there is need to take any measures available to reduce the death tolls on the roads.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Geoffrey Obatsa |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2016 08:58 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2016 08:58 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/732 |
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