The effectiveness of actions in the field of road safety
The effectiveness of actions in the field of road safety

Summary/Abstract: The article is on the measurement of effectiveness of efforts to improve road safety. It was indicated that the need to measure the effectiveness of road safety actions stems from strategic documents in the field of transport. Effectiveness was defined as an economic category used for evaluating the activities, and there was also shown the definition diversity of the concept of effectiveness. In economics effectiveness 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 economist Vilfredo Pareto, who formulated the theory of management balance, acting as the main interpretation of the concept of effectiveness in the economy. In the article it was also indicated on the specificity of measuring effectiveness 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.

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