THE STUDY OF ROAD SAFETY IN KUALA BHARU, SELANGOR

Abstract

This study intends to investigate accident rate statistics for Jalan Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh which is the main route leading to Tanjung Malim. People are reducing their level of safety and implementing inadequate traffic safety measures, which is a trend that leads to accidents. As a result, it is important to enhance safety measures in order to lower injuries and traffic accidents. The objective of the study is to identify several things such as road accident factors on Jalan Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh, Kuala Kubu Bahru. The perception of road users, particularly in regard to several areas of road safety, such as speeding and aggressive driving. The research method set to achieve the above objectives is by performing a case study that applies a quantitative and qualitative approach. The secondary data is the accident information gathered during a two-year period from 2020 to 2021 from two organizations, the Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ) and Ibupejabat Polis Diraja Malaysia Bukit Aman (IPD). The researcher methodologies used Road Safety Audit, Traffic Volume Study and Questionnaires while carrying out analysis using a qualitative approach in order to see the kind of road physical planning and the physical characteristics of roads that exist in the study region. The findings study indicate that physical road damage is the most frequent and widespread and the absence of road shoulder signs has caused road accidents. However, the focus of this essay will be on a variety of crucial elements of road safety, such as mending broken roads, installing street lights and signs, cameras AES, roadside furniture and the necessity of maintaining vehicles to reduce the number of traffic accidents.