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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ANALYSIS ALONG EAST –<br />
COAST EXPRESSWAY<br />
Intan Suhana Mohd.Razelan<br />
Shahril Faiz Abd. Manaf<br />
Azlina Ismail<br />
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Resources<br />
Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Road Accidents Trend<br />
• According to United Nation report in year 2005,<br />
<strong>traffic</strong> <strong>accidents</strong> had taken 6,000 lives in<br />
Malaysia and cost us RM1.5 billion of loss in<br />
terms of productivity, medical cost, property<br />
damage and other expenses.<br />
• According to PDRM, total road <strong>accidents</strong> and<br />
fatalities in Malaysia from year 1990-2004<br />
showed a relieving result with fatalities<br />
percentage has a major decreased from 4.6% in<br />
year 1990 to only 1.8% in year 2004.
Ops Sikap Report (Death / day)<br />
20<br />
19<br />
18<br />
17<br />
16<br />
15<br />
14<br />
13<br />
12<br />
11<br />
10<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20<br />
Source : JKJR
Malaysia’s Target for Year 2010<br />
Source : MIROS
What other researchers found..<br />
• Eckhardt, N., Thomas, I. (2004) : characteristic of the environment<br />
and the roads significantly influence the occurrence of road<br />
<strong>accidents</strong> ; road users do not adapt their behavior sufficiently to<br />
changes in road conditions.<br />
• Abdul Kareem (2003) : lack of attention, reckless driving, lack of<br />
proper protection, speeding, bad personal habits, social and<br />
behavioral misconduct and inconsiderate drivers of larger vehicle<br />
are some of the problems that caused <strong>accidents</strong> in Malaysia.<br />
• Azmani, W., et al (2005) : Uneven surface of road seemed to<br />
expose the road users to the risk of <strong>accidents</strong> although the road was<br />
just opened to the public. Even a small errors of design such as in<br />
curve super elevations may lead the vehicle to lose it’s control<br />
especially during high speed.
Objectives of Study<br />
• The main objectives of this study are..<br />
– to analyze and produce a <strong>traffic</strong> <strong>accidents</strong><br />
trends for East-Coast Expressway for year<br />
2004 until year 2007<br />
– identify the most critical district and black spot<br />
area within district that recorded the highest<br />
number of road <strong>traffic</strong> <strong>accidents</strong> <strong>along</strong> East –<br />
Coast Expressway.
East Coast Expressways<br />
• The East Coast Expressway is a 350 km (217 mile)-long, closed<br />
toll, 4-lane <strong>expressway</strong> (2 per direction) beginning from the end<br />
of the Kuala Lumpur – Karak Expressway in Karak, Pahang and<br />
ends at Chendering near Kuala Terengganu.<br />
• The length of phase 1 is 160 km (99.4 miles) and runs<br />
from Kuala Lumpur – Karak Expressway through<br />
Lanchang, Mentakab, Temerloh, Chenor, Maran, Kuantan<br />
and ends at the Pahang-Terengganu border near Jabur.
Research Area - East Coast<br />
Expressway
Numbers of road <strong>traffic</strong> <strong>accidents</strong> <strong>along</strong> East-<br />
Coast Expressway from 2004-2007<br />
District<br />
Number of Accidents in Years<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
Total number<br />
of <strong>accidents</strong><br />
Kuantan 93 237 281 350 961<br />
Maran 77 233 276 283 869<br />
Temerloh 95 196 215 207 713<br />
Bentong<br />
16 50 66<br />
111 243<br />
Total 281 716 838 951 2786
Accidents Facts Along ECE<br />
• Kuantan districts is always on the top ranking on number<br />
of road <strong>accidents</strong> cases starting from year 2004 until<br />
year 2007 followed by Maran, Temerloh and lastly<br />
Bentong.<br />
• Total of 2786 numbers of <strong>traffic</strong> <strong>accidents</strong> within 41<br />
months of its operation period (the <strong>expressway</strong> opened<br />
for public in August 2004), this <strong>expressway</strong> has<br />
experienced about 68 numbers of <strong>accidents</strong> per<br />
months .
Number of Fatal Accidents<br />
14<br />
13<br />
12<br />
10<br />
10<br />
8<br />
7<br />
8<br />
8<br />
6<br />
6<br />
6<br />
5<br />
6<br />
4<br />
3<br />
3<br />
3<br />
2<br />
2<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
0<br />
Kuantan Maran Temerloh Bentong
Number of Accidents with Deaths<br />
25<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
14<br />
11<br />
12<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
4<br />
4<br />
6<br />
0<br />
8<br />
7<br />
5<br />
2<br />
8<br />
1<br />
3<br />
0<br />
2004 2005Year<br />
2006 2007<br />
Kuantan Maran Temerloh Bentong
Numbers of Accidents with Severe<br />
Injuries<br />
12<br />
10<br />
8<br />
6<br />
4<br />
2<br />
0<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
Year<br />
Kuantan Maran Temerloh Bentong
Number of Accidents with Slight<br />
Injuries<br />
80<br />
70<br />
60<br />
50<br />
40<br />
30<br />
20<br />
10<br />
0<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
Year<br />
Kuantan Maran Temerloh Bentong
Maran vs. Temerloh<br />
• The numbers of <strong>accidents</strong> with severe injuries shows<br />
dramatic changes with the highest number of victim were<br />
generated from Maran district.<br />
• This is quite surprising as most of the fatal <strong>accidents</strong> and<br />
<strong>accidents</strong> with deaths happened in Temerloh district.<br />
• This data widely revealed that most of the <strong>accidents</strong><br />
happened within Maran district rarely led to deaths but<br />
only caused severe injuries to the victims compared to<br />
<strong>accidents</strong> happened within Temerloh district that most of<br />
the <strong>accidents</strong> will bring deaths to the victims (Year 2006:<br />
2 <strong>accidents</strong>/km in Maran)
Numbers<br />
Accidents Prone Area<br />
350<br />
350<br />
300<br />
250<br />
237<br />
233<br />
281<br />
276<br />
283<br />
200<br />
150<br />
100<br />
50<br />
0<br />
93<br />
77<br />
Years<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
Bentong<br />
Temerloh<br />
Maran<br />
Kuantan
Accidents Prone Area<br />
• Kuantan district is the highest compared to<br />
another district. Although in year 2004 until year<br />
2006, the number of accident cases in Kuantan,<br />
Maran and Temerloh District were quite similar<br />
but in year 2007, the number of accident cases<br />
occurred within Kuantan District were having a<br />
huge jump by leaving all the other 3 districts far<br />
behind.
Number of Accident Cases between Gambang and<br />
Kuantan Interchange( within Kuantan District)<br />
50<br />
40<br />
30<br />
20<br />
10<br />
0<br />
217 -<br />
218.9<br />
219 -<br />
220.9<br />
221 -<br />
222.9<br />
223 -<br />
224.9<br />
225 -<br />
226.9<br />
227 -<br />
228.9<br />
229 -<br />
230.9<br />
231 -<br />
232.9<br />
233 -<br />
234.9<br />
235 -<br />
236.9<br />
237 -<br />
238.9<br />
Road Sections
Accidents Prone Area<br />
• 49 number of accident cases has been recorded<br />
for a section starting from KM 219 until KM<br />
220.9 which makes the differences of about 40<br />
number of accident cases when compared to the<br />
‘safest’ section <strong>along</strong> this stretch which is<br />
between 237 until 238.9 (there are 9 accident<br />
were recorded <strong>along</strong> KM 237 until KM 238.9).<br />
• This figure was quite extreme as for this section<br />
alone, the ratio of <strong>accidents</strong> per kilometers has<br />
becomes 20 <strong>accidents</strong> in each kilometer.
Conclusions<br />
• Unsuitable geometric designs that caused an<br />
uneven road surface were suspected to be one<br />
of the major causes contributing to this problem.<br />
• Bad weather conditions such as raining worsen<br />
the condition and the situation is uncontrollable.<br />
• This study were conducted mainly to make all<br />
road users realizes that the ‘age’ and roads<br />
design standard doesn’t reflects it’s reliability in<br />
terms of safety