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Comparison of methods for determining crash hotspots in the road traffic

A precondition for the management of road traffic safety is the systematic collection of data on traffic accidents that will enable the identification and determination of the place where there are high concentrations of road accidents. Determination of hotspots is the first step to improve the level of traffic safety on the roads. Interventions in places of accumulation of traffic accidents are considered one of the most effective approaches in prevention of traffic accidents on roads. Among the most important phases of managing risk places and security of the road network, except for analysis and treatment, the identification of hotspots is extracted - covering a range of procedures for the disclosure of such places in the road network. Considering the literature a number of attempts to find and define the most effective methods that would enable the measurement of individual sections of road safety and to determine the most endangered and dangerous places, or hotspots in traffic on the roads was observed. Despite enormous efforts, the principles and techniques for the hotspots are still not fully standardized and the approaches used vary from country to country. Methodologies range from simple marking of a place with large number of traffic accidents to more sophisticated techniques in which evaluation of expected number of accidents is being made as well determination of the potential for improving safety. All this indicates that there is indeed a wide range to determine hotspots on the roads in terms of methodology.

Hot spot; Road Safety; Traffic Accidents

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