Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

FORGIVING ROADS DESIGN – WAY TO ACHIEVE SDG 3.6

Pratibha Choudhary and Prerana Arora

Abstract

Road engineering is a major component of entire road ecosystem and its design plays a significant role increating safe or unsafe road environment for any crash to be happen or not. Pillar 2 of Decade of Action forRoad Safety talks about “Safer Road Infrastructure” where roads are to be designed to meet atleast 3 starsafety ratings to 5 star ratings of safety standards of all types of road users – pedestrians, bicyclists, 2-wheeler and four wheeler motorized vehicles. Thus, a concept of Forgiving roads adopted where roads aredesigned with considering safety features that accepts the mistakes of road users and reduces the chancesof intensity of fatalities and injuries on roads.