Ensuring road safety: national and foreign experience

Ensuring road safety: national and foreign experience

In the current era of global changes, the factors that threaten human life are increasing more and more. One of them is unpleasant situations related to traffic accidents. Almost every day, we hear news about traffic accidents in different regions of the world through the mass media or the Internet. The saddest thing is that most of them end in death. It can be seen that road accidents are one of the main causes of premature death. According to the World Health Organization, more than 3.5 thousand people become victims of traffic accidents on the roads of our planet every day. It is a pity that 500 of them are schoolchildren.  This means 1.3 million people in one year. At the meeting of the international organization held in Geneva in October 2021, the priority is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by road traffic accidents by at least 50 percent by implementing the program "Decade of action to ensure road safety in 2021-2030". was set as a goal. Scientists estimate that road traffic accidents will cause 13 million more deaths and 500 million more injuries over the next decade, with low- and middle-income countries particularly affected. The increase in the standard of living of the population in our country and the significant increase in the number of personal vehicles, on the one hand, require serious attention to the issue of ensuring traffic safety on the roads and protecting the life and health of citizens. Because, despite the fact that systematic measures are being implemented in this regard, the analysis of statistical numbers puts the need for radical improvement of the sector on the agenda. As we all know, the field of road safety is made up of various organizational measures, and today it is important to bring them into a unified system, effectively coordinate them and, as a result, achieve significant positive results. It's no secret that there are many systemic problems waiting to be solved in the field of road safety.  In order to find a solution to such problems, an international scientific-practical conference was held on May 31 of this year at the University of Public Safety on the theme "Ensuring road safety: national and foreign experience". This scientific conference, organized by the initiative of the Department of Public Safety of the University, was attended by a number of international partners, including Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus, Turkey, Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries, as well as professors of higher education institutions. teachers participated with their lectures. In order to effectively organize traffic and ensure traffic safety, by developing road infrastructure in accordance with modern requirements, by widely introducing information and communication technologies into the field and using them effectively, to raise the safety indicators of traffic participants to a high level, to prevent traffic jams - today it is extremely important and It was noted at the conference that it has become one of the most urgent issues that cannot be delayed. This conference, organized at the University of Public Safety, aims to effectively reduce the number of accidents on the roads, to ensure traffic safety, and solutions that cannot be implemented only by the efforts of the Traffic Safety Service are solved jointly and with individual responsibility. It is an actual area that directly affects the socio-political situation, determines the confidence and mood of the population towards the state, and it is of particular importance because it is the priority task of each of us. Opinions, proposals and recommendations expressed within the framework of today's scientific conference are aimed at improving the legal mechanisms of ensuring road safety and introducing innovative approaches, preventing negative situations related to road traffic accidents, increasing the legal culture and knowledge of participants in the movement, digitalization of the industry, serves to develop promising projects for improving the condition of roads and infrastructure, along with practical solutions to existing problems, to coordinate the cooperation of state bodies, enterprises and organizations in the field of road safety.

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