Defining the Influence of the Support of Bus Service on Road Safety

Milos Poliak,Salvador Hernandez,Stefania Semanova,Marek Jaskiewicz,Lenka Komackova

doi:10.26552/com.c.2016.2.83-87

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Abstract

The paper deals with the relationship of increasing road safety through the support of bus service. The objective of the paper is to analyse the factors affecting road safety. Subsequently, the impact of the bus service support on road safety is expressed through those factors. The paper highlights the multiplier effect of the bus service support on road safety increase. First part of the paper analyses factors affecting road safety. The factors are divided into three groups in terms of infrastructure, vehicles and drivers. Further part emphasizes the possibilities for improving individual factors under the support of bus service. The last part of the paper processes a theoretical model which reflects the impact of the bus service support on increasing road safety.

Highlights

Road safety represents an all-society problem in the EU and in non-member states of the EU [1]
All measures aimed at increasing road safety have been focused on infrastructure, vehicles and drivers
This means that the result of the support of public passenger transport, through which the density of traffic flow would be decreased, can be expected in reduction of the risk of an accident, because the following applies: Δre = f(MA-MB) = f(ΔM)

Summary

Introduction

Road safety represents an all-society problem in the EU and in non-member states of the EU [1]. E.g. Koorntra et al [3] or Subramanian [4], the safety of road transport is improving because of the decrease of the share of killed persons in road traffic. All measures aimed at increasing road safety have been focused on infrastructure, vehicles and drivers. Measures aimed at vehicles improve technical equipment which increase safety of vehicles for passengers as well as the surroundings of vehicles (e.g. ABS components, airbags, and crumple zones of vehicle). The aim of the paper is to point out that the positive effect on road safety can be achieved through significant support of bus service. The authors of the paper try to prove the hypothesis that the support of bus service has a multiplier effect which is reflected in the change of all three groups of the factors affecting road safety

Factors affecting the road safety

Multiplier effect of support of bus service on the road safety increase

Conclusion