Analyses and statistics on the frequency and the incidence of traffic accidents within Dolj County

Abstract

Abstract. Within the entire territory of the EU Member States, traffic accidents cause yearly over 37,000 deaths and about 1.2 million injured, as well as damages estimated, annually, at 145 billion Euros. Under the circumstances, a series of strategies and measures have been adopted over the past two decades in order to reduce the number of victims caused by traffic accidents, hence preventing some of the worst consequences. Aiming at improving road traffic safety, joint efforts have been carried out to estimate and identify those factors leading to the occurrence of accidents, in order to adopt and implement the most appropriate measures to reduce the risk of collisions. The dynamics of a traffic accident is different from one case to another; thus, safety measures can only be enforced following in-depth analyses on the occurrence of traffic accidents. The main objective of our research study is to design and develop an analysis model on the occurrence and the circumstances leading to traffic accidents, considering at the same time some main characteristics of the driver, such as age, gender, etc.

Opportunities to improve road traffic on short-length road connections by correlating intersection traffic lights

“…In recent decades, road traffic problems have become widespread in large cities in Romania, especially for areas that are important hubs for city traffic flows, and are becoming more and more acute [1], [2].…”