Road Bumps and Economic Losses in Traffic

More than 270,000 pedestrians die on the world's roads each year. Globally, pedestrians account for 22 per cent of total road traffic fatalities, and in the Republic of Belarus they account for about half of such fatalities. Currently, the main intervention to improve pedestrian safety is the use of road bumps. This is due to the low cost of implementation and high speed of work. At the same time, it should be understood that the use of road bumps reduces the speed of vehicles, which along with the reduction of accident losses gives an increase in environmental and economic losses in road traffic.

The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of the use of road bumps on economic losses in road traffic by establishing the type of dependence between such losses and the parameters of traffic and pedestrian flows. Achievement of such a goal is made by collecting field data on the operation of real objects where road bumps are installed, simulation modelling of their operation, establishing a regression model between the dependent and independent variables.