Analysis of possibility for traffic safety improvement based on Serbian traffic violation database analysis

Abstract

In order to improve traffic safety, both reactive and proactive approaches are used. Unlike the reactive, the proactive approach ’does not wait’ for traffic accidents to happen to start analysing traffic safety conditions. The proactive approach implies traffic safety improvement based on the analysis of so-called indirect traffic safety indicators, like the behaviuor of traffic participants, and the analysis of unsafe traffic participants behaviours that are detected and registered in traffic violations database, are specially interesting. This paper analyzes the possibilities of traffic safety improvement based on Serbian traffic violation database analysis. It was noticed that not all data from database can be used for traffic safety improvement, and at the same time, this paper represents a method in selecting so-called relevant data, which can be used for traffic safety improvement by using adequate preventive activities and measures. In order to define the measures for traffic safety improvement, a possible way of further analysis for some of the relevant data was also presented in this work. Key words: Traffic safety improvement, traffic violation, traffic accident, relevant data, countermeasures.