Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to familiarize the reader with a case study of the main causes of road trucks' (RT) accidents on roads by applying analytical methods and a questionnaire survey. In the introductory part of the paper, the theoretical foundations in the field of road safety from the view of road infrastructure and vehicle construction, which are applied nowadays to prevent and minimize the severity of traffic accidents, are briefly described. Subsequently, the above-mentioned issues are applied in a real environment, when, based on the analysis of registered traffic accidents of RT and a questionnaire survey among professional drivers, the main causes of these accidents were identified and measures were proposed, including the possibility of their implementation in real traffic conditions. In the final part of the paper, a short evaluation of the variants of measures is carried out in terms of the expected impact on the accident rate.
DOI: 10.3311/pptr.38721
Author: Jiří Hanzl
Institution: Institute of Technology and Business
Language: English
Topic: Traffic and Road Safety
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409369868