Transportation policies in increasing traffic safety

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 104 - 108, 15.08.2018

Ahmet Atalay , Ahmet Ünal , Muhammed Yasin Çodur

Abstract

In our century, all
economical social, cultural and touristic facilities are available through the
rapid, confident and satisfactory transporting. Transportation policies are of
great importance in terms of increasing productivity. Country's transport
system plays an important role in revitalizing the social, cultural and
economic activities of countries. Therefore, the efficient use of resources,
the rapid distribution of goods and services, the development of domestic and
foreign trade will only be possible with careful planning of transport and the
establishment of a regular transport network. It is desirable that the
transport system to be selected for passenger and freight transport should be
fast, economic, safe, and environmentally friendly systems suitable for the
country conditions. Transportation policies are determined in the direction of
these expectations. Besides the positive results of transport systems, it
brings some problems. The most important of these problems is related to
traffic safety, which is also the main topic of study. There are some studies
on road safety in the World and in Europe. These studies; the development of
new technologies, such as the provision of road signs and traffic penalty
analogies, the restriction of alcohol content, the reduction of the number of
lives lost in road traffic accidents, the development of electronic driving
licenses, the limitation of intelligent transportation systems and the speed of
vehicles. The aim of this study is to examine the policies to increase traffic
safety. As a result of this study, the applications of the policies for traffic
safety and the deficiencies of the implementation point in the country of
Turkey are determined and suggested. 

Keywords

Traffic Safety, Transportation Policy, Turkey

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