Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The article moves on the measurement of effectiveness of efforts to improve road safety. It was indicated that the need to measure the effectiveness of these actions stems from strategic documents in the field of transport. Effectiveness was defined as an economic category used for evaluating the activities, the diversity of the definition of the concept of efficiency was shown. Efficiency in economic sciences is presented in terms of economic and organizational chart. The article refers to the study on the effectiveness of the allocation of resources carried out by the Italian mathematician Vilfredo Pareto, who formulated the theory of the balance of the management, acting as the main interpretation of the concept of efficiency in the economy. In the article it was also indicated on the specificity of measuring efficiency in efforts to improve road safety and an essential element of which is the human factor. The investment efficiency calculus in the area of road safety was presented as a social one.
Author: Mariusz Ogłoziński
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2531533349