Vehicle and Road Safety
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Vehicle and Road Safety Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Vehicle and Road Safety (subject code 3170214) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 7 divides the course into 8 units, covering 47 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170214)Unit 1 The Concept of Vehicle Safety
- Need of safety
- active safety: driving safety
- conditional safety
- perceptibility safety
- operating safety- passive safety
- exterior safety
- interior safety
- deformation behaviour of vehicle body
Unit 2 Vehicle Safety System
- automatic seat belt Tightener system
- Collapsible steering column
- Tiltable steering wheel
- Electronic system for activating air bags
- Bumper design for safety
- antiskid braking system
Unit 3 Speed Control Devices
- Causes of rear end collision
- Frontal object detection
- Rear vehicle object detection system
- Object detection system with braking system interactions
Unit 4 Introduction to Road Safety
- Road traffic accidents scenario in India and in world
- Road Safety and its importance
- Traffic rules and driving behaviour. characteristics of accidents
- accidents vs. crash
- crash test
Unit 5 Planning for Road Safety
- Awareness about rules and regulations of traffic
- assisting traffic control authorities
- Multidisciplinary approach to planning for traffic safety and injury control
- Vulnerable road users: crashes related to pedestrian and bicyclists
- their safety
- provision for disabled
Unit 6 Responsibility of Road Accidents and Safety Measures
- People responsible for accident prevention: Police
- Community members
- Policy makers
- Infrastructure authorities
- Drivers and Official road safety body
- Reasons of students/ children have accidents. 4 E’s of Accidents Prevention: 1.Engineering – by altering the environment 2
- Enforcement - by imposing laws 3
- Encouragement - by the use of publicity campaigns 4
- Education - by gaining and using knowledge
Unit 7 Road Safety Education
- Introduction to Road Safety Education. 5 P’s of Road safety education: 1
- Pre-school road safety education 2
- Practical rather than theory education 3
- Principles of own development as regards to road safety education 4
- Presentations on road safety education 5
- Place for road safety education in syllabus
Unit 8 Road Safety Events
- Discussions on efforts done by Government on Road Safety Subject Code: 3170214 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 Celebration of Road Safety week or Workshop on Road Safety week/ Organization of seminar on Road Safety
- This is to be entirely organized by students under the mentorship of concerned Head of the Department
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