(University of Zilina, 2019) Danchevska, Verica; Joshevski, Zoran; Danchevski, Dejan
Traffic accidents are a serious problem in every society. Traffic safety is a science that analyzes road accidents
with material damage, lightly injured, severely injured and killed persons. This paper proposes that road safety investment
can be optimised by the development of a road safety management model. Road safety strategies typically include a basket
of engineering, enforcement and education/training measures but there does not appear to be any management model which
permits the optimisation of road safety investment. The proposed model utilises linear programming to predict changes in
road safety resulting from safety interventions. It is mainly based on research in the areas of engineering and enforcement
since there is little published research on the correlation between education and accident reduction. The model output provides
the accident reduction and associated costs resulting from feasible road safety strategies. This should benefit policy
makers when allocating resources. This example will be good experience for Traffic safety management system in the Republic
of Macedonia.
