Prioritizing Suggested Strategies to Reduce Road Accidents at the Cities Entrance Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Accidents in developing countries are the greatest death cause more than 60% of the accidents occur at the entrance of the cities; in fact the quality and quantity of the road accidents show the safety of the roads. Although the entrance of the cities have the same structure as the suburban roads, in terms of function due to its applications are the same as city roads. Inappropriate behavioral pattern of the road users to the entrance of the cities causes chaos in traffics and leads to accident. The purpose of this study is to check the affecting factors on accidents at the entrance of the cities for this study Karaj- Qazvin highway was taken inconsideration in order to prioritize the suggested options through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Improving the road users’ culture and improving the brake systems and navigation of vehicles and also creating signs and physical speed breaker on the roads are some of the best options in the result of prioritizing process. In the study some suggested options as strategies according to the existing situation are presented to reduce accidents at the entrance of the city.