FACTORS AFFECTING THE ROAD SAFETY
Keywords:
road safety, driver, accidentAbstract
This paper deals with the issue of road safety and with factors affecting the road safety. The factors are divided into three groups: driver behaviour, construction and condition of the vehicle and condition of infrastructure. The paper also deals with the issue of alcohol that also has influence on the road safety.
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Safety in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. SWOV, Leidschendam.
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death in the United States, 2007. Traffic Safety Facts, Research Note. National
Highway Traffic safety Administration, U. S. Department of Transportation. DOT HS
811 443.
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konkurencieschopného dopravnému systému efektívne využívajúceho zdroje.
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(7) A new theory of complexity for safety research. The case of long – lasting gap in road
safety outcomes between France and Great Britain.
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onstave-bezpenosti-cestnej-premavky-2013&catid=145:urazovos-deti
(11) Road safety performance indicators for the interurban road network.
(12) Davis, G. A. (2000). Accident reduction factors and casual inference in traffic safety
studies: a review. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 32(1), 95 – 109.
Evans, l., (2004). Traffic Safety. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Science Serving Society.
(13) Cohen, A., Evans, L. (November 2003). The effects of mandatory seat belt laws on
driving behaviour and traffic fatalities. Review of Economics and Statistics, 85 (4), 828-
843. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (December 2000). Fatality
reduction by safety belts for front-seat occupants of cars and light trucks. Report DOTHS-
809-199. Washington: NHTSA. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(2010a). Lives saved in 2009 by restraint use and minimum-dringing-age laws.
Washington (DC): NHTSA.
(14) Shinar, D. (2007). Traffiic safety and human behaviour. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group
Publishing.
(15) U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Impaired driving.
(16) Ramstedt, M., 2008. Alcohol and fatal accidents in the United States – A time series
analysis for 1950–2002. Accident Anal. Prev. 40, 1273–128; Skog, O. J., 2001. Alcohol
consumption and mortality rates from traffic accidents, accidental falls, and other
accidents in 14 European countries. Addiction 96,S49–S58.
(17) Sheehan, M., 2006. Impaired driving. Road safety summit. http://www.transport.
qld.gov.au/Home/Safety/Road/Rs summit.
(18) Hakkert, A. S., Gitelman, V. and Vis, M. A. (Eds.), 2007. Road Safety Performance
Indicators: Theory. Deliverable D3. 6 of the EU FP6 project SafetyNet.
(19) ZHOU, L. - BURRIS, M. W. – BAKER, R. T. – GEISELBRECHT, T. (2009). Impact of
Incentives on Toll Road Use by Trucks, Transportation Research Record – journal of
the Transportation Research Board, No 2115. Washington, D. C.
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Komačková, L. ., & Poliak, M. . (2015). FACTORS AFFECTING THE ROAD SAFETY. Perner’s Contacts, 10(3), 73–80. Retrieved from https://pernerscontacts.upce.cz/index.php/perner/article/view/662
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