Kolkata Traffic PoliceLogistics & Road Safety

Sumit Kumar IPS

Deputy Commissioner of Police

Traffic Department, Kolkata

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)200 1731

2018

(till 31st July)173 1259

Comparative Fatal – Non Fatal

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

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Fatal Accidents on Flyovers

2016

2017

2018

% of Road Users who are Victims of RTAs

2 Wheeler

users

28%

Oth…

Passenger

12%

Pedestrian

51%

Slow Moving

Users

5%

More that 50% of the victims are PEDESTRIANS

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

Ambulan

ce

1%

Auto

2%

Goods

Vehicle

25%

Bus

27%

Taxi/ L-

Taxi

6%

Private

Car

10%

2

wheeler

15%

Unknown

14%

% of all

vehicles

involved

in RTAs

Buses comprise 1% of the total vehicles registered

They cause 27% of all RTAs

Goods Vehicle comprise 8% of the total vehicles registered

They cause 25% of all RTAs

2 Wheelers are responsible for

15% of all RTAs

Auto

2%

Goods

Vehicle

8%

Bus

1%

Taxi/L-

Taxi

2%

Private

Car

22%

2 wheeler

65%

% of all

vehicles

registered

around

Kolkata

% of Offending Vehicles causing RTAs

Bigger vehicles - BUSES & GOODS VEHICLES contribute to more than 50% of RTAs

Reason Remedy

1. Buses compete for passengers2. Poor compliance to payment of fine3. Blind spot issues4. Vehicle Fitness issues (Poor Control)5. Buses not stopping at designated

places6. Pedestrian management

1. Enforcement (Sending violation messages to drivers. Reward Punishment)

2. Linking of FC to clearing pending cases3. PIS at Designated Bus stops4. Putting up Boom Barriers etc5. 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

27 2631

2621

42

56

42

5448

59

70

5861

6468 69

87

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

00:00 - 04:00 04:01 - 08:00 08:01 - 12:00 12:01 - 16:00 16:01 - 20:00 20:01 - 00:00

Trend in RTAs at different hours of the day

2018 2017 2016

Initiatives taken to curb RTAs

Education

Emergency Response

Enforcement

Engineering

Education

Mass education programme – Jaaago Kolkata

Total number of Schools 366

Total number of School Students 96,932

Total number of Traffic Guard 25

Total number of Drivers 86,486

Total School Session conducted in School 1,860

Total Drivers Session conducted in Traffic

Guards6,622

Driver Type Enrolment Count

App Cabs 10,451

Auto Driver 15,074

Bus Driver 2,499

Taxi Driver 16,060

Truck (HGV) 2,514

Truck (LGV) 18.117

Truck (MGV) 2,916

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

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

Response

Period183 MV Act

(Over Speeding)

185 MV Act

(Drunken Driving)

2015 7,309 1,755

2016 16,583 1,829

2017

01/01/17

to

30/04/17

44,511

3,88701/05/17

to

31/12/17

4,71,433

Speed Signage & Camera

Installed for the first time in 2017

2018

(31st July)3,45,288 2,681

Enforcement

Enforcement against helmetless riding

Period 128/129 MV Act

2015 1,38,435

2016 1,85,492

2017 6,44,583

2018

(till 31st July) 5,13,415

Suspension of Driving Licence

D/Ls suspension for Over speeding >100

20172018

(31st July)

Total DL Suspended 2456 1231

Notices issued for over

speeding9588 5090

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

Signal on

Road

Signal on

Road

Signal on

Road

Central

Command &

Control

Live Traffic Data

Time offset

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.