...Piyoosh Rautela; Swarn Shikher Pant Purpose The purpose of this paper is to attempt to put forth an innovative geographic information system (GIS)‐based methodology for demarcating stretches of mountain roads with differential probability of road accidents. The proposed methodology has been tested...

...Ravindra K. Pande Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present observations on the National Human Rights Commission report on the emergency medical services (EMS) with special reference to Uttaranchal, India. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents observations of road accidents...

...Piyoosh Rautela; Ravish Sharma Analysis of data on road accidents collected from different sources brings forth important characteristics related to the nature of accidents. Based on this, the fatality index (FI) is defined as the ratio of fatalities to injuries in accidents. An increase in FI...