Transportation disaster

Transportation disaster

1. TRANSPORTATION DISASTER Dr Fayaz A. Malla Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences GDC Tral Higher Education Department, Govt. of J&K Email: [email protected]

2. As per United Nations organization 2010 report transportation hazards and disasters are expected to claim more human lives than HIV by 2020 AD. Since the means of transport like vehicles on the roads passenger and freight trains on rail tracks ships in the seas and rivers and aircrafts in the air are operated and handled by humans hence there is every likelihood for hazardous accidents to occur and to clean human lives and to destroy properties resulting into huge economic and financial losses. On an average there are transportation accidental disasters almost every day in the world, but accident events are under reported consequently exact figures regarding accidents related casualties and economic and financial losses are not available. INTRODUCTION

3. Road accidents or traffic collision disasters Rail disasters Aviation accident disasters Maritime accident disasters The transportation disasters are classified into four major groups based on means of transportation TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS

4. CAUSES OF TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS

5. Road Accident Disasters Road accidents are most common of all the transportation accidents and disasters because of largest road lengths and longest road network and largest number of vehicles of all other transportation carriers and network in the world. Accidents are also called traffic collision accidents or disasters

6. RAIL ACCIDENT DISASTERS Rail accidents depend upon several factors such as

7. AVIATION DISASTER Aviation accidents are defined as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time and any person boards the aircraft with the intention of light until such time as all such persons have disembarked, where a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure, or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible (The convention on international civil aviation)

8. CAUSES OF AVIATION DISASTERS

9. Maritime transportation accidents related disaster is confined to accidents of cargo ships and passenger ferry ships only The maritime accidents of ferry ships, cargo ships, oil tankers, fishing trawlers result in: Human casualties Economic and financial losses Environmental pollution and damage to marine lives Maritime Disaster

10. CAUSES OF MARITINE DISASTERS

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