Підвищення безпеки автомобільних перевезень автошляхами Черкаської області

Abstract

The problem of ensuring the safety of movement on the Cherkasy region roads is being studied. The need to improve transportation safety and study the factors affecting it arose with the development of market-based methods of transport management, changes in the structure and management system of the transport industry of Ukraine. Such qualitative changes have led to the development in this field of new models, methods, methodologies of transportation safety management capable of comprehensively solving the problems of transportation organization, their legal, financial, and information support. In order to identify methods of improving road safety in the region, an in-depth analysis of the state of accidents in the territory of the General Directorate of the National Police in Cherkasy Region was conducted by types, causes, days of the week, time of traffic accidents, number of victims, number of dead, etc. Dangerous sections of highways were identified and an experimental study was conducted to identify the causes of traffic accidents. In the course of the experimental study, measurements were made that allow to calculate the speed of vehicles that, violating traffic rules, were overtaking on sections of highways with blind turns. From the obtained results, it can be concluded that the main causes of traffic accidents are the violation of traffic rules, which is caused by the difference in traffic speeds in the flow and the unconscious attitude of drivers to the corresponding traffic situation. As a result of the conducted research, recommendations were provided for optimizing the organization of traffic on dangerous sections of highways. Namely, it is proposed to use the methodology of experimental research on other dangerous sections of the country's highways and to install dynamic traffic signs that will allow regulating the maximum permissible speed depending on the selected factors on the relevant sections, thereby reducing the speed difference in the flow of traffic and punishing violators for exceeding the speed limit. In addition, a very important element of improving safety on the country's highways is the dissemination of information programs on compliance with traffic rules among the country's youth. The proposed method is recommended to be used to reduce the number of road accidents, and accordingly, to reduce the number of victims of road accidents in the territory of Ukraine.