Understanding physical environment through safe highway transport mobility with special review on climate: The highway route Belgrade-Novi Sad, Serbia

Abstract

This paper focuses on the highway corridor Belgrade-Novi Sad, Serbia and the relationship between the highway and surrounding nature, as an integral part of the spatial entity which the highway belongs to. The paper emphasizes a high importance of studying the physical-geographical factors in the process of highway construction in order to achieve high level of traffic safety. Particular attention was directed to climate elements-the factors that are not so visible, but still may pose a great risk to road safety. Data were taken from CARPATCLIM database and their evaluation was confirmed by the data obtained from CHEK-LISTS. It was found that the climate elements have a strong influence, but it can be successfully controlled by vegetation. Landscape design of both sides of the highway may offer a possibility of mitigating the influence of climate elements, which was also pointed out in the paper.

Understanding the Influence of Climate Elements on Traffic Behavior: The Wind Impact Approach

“…During the highway construction, the terrain was raised by several meters from its original level, so the entire route was constructed on a signi cant embankment (Sentić and Đorđević, 2019). This makes the tra c route itself additionally exposed to wind, snowdrifts, earth and other loose material deposits on the highway pavement.…”

“…Every highway section is speci c and it has to be considered as separate in terms of the impact of climate elements (Sentić et al, 2018). This is necessary if we want to go even further and to obtain rational data about which highway subsections should be considered unsafe and in order to reach adequate landscape design as a measure of tra c safety control (Lorenz, 1980;Sentić and Đorđević, 2019). In developed European countries, wider approach to the highway landscape design is considered a must in order to increase tra c safety (Löfgren et al, 2018), while in Serbia, this issue is viewed as a craze or a problem that should be resolved by a third party ("O cial Gazette RS", no.…”