Speeding behavior is recognized as one of the three main causes of risk on the roads and the most frequent ordinary violation among truck drivers. The study reported in this article focused on the ...

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Analysis of the traffic safety factors in some region (road, section of road, road’s kilometer) is an important task in the field of traffic safety. It is necessary to constantly monitor, analyze, compare traffic safety situation in order to develop and improve measures for increasing the level of traffic safety. The first part of each analysis is finding of positions of traffic accidents and its casualties, in other words it is necessary to find its coordinates in the space-time coordinate system. This paper shows results of the descriptive statistical analysis of traffic accidents frequency on the rural road for the period 2005-2011. It will be point out advantages and disadvantages of this approach and also it will be suggested a new individual approach for determinate the mean time between consecutive traffic accidents.

Background: The promotion of cycling as a healthy and socio-economically acceptable way of moving has led to a significant increase in these road users. Moreover, the indisputable fact is that children cyclists belong to the group of the vulnerable road users. All this clearly indicates that cycling education programs for children are the only correct approach. The primary goal of the presented research are inception and implementation of a cycling safety education program for school-age children without formal cycling knowledge and skills. Methods: Students from the 4th grade (9 and 10 years old) from nine randomly schools on the territory of the Republic of Serbia participated in a survey. In order to measure and evaluate the knowledge and skills, the students were put through testing before and after the cycling safety education program. Data were analysed using repeated multivariate analysis of variance test.Results: Comparing the intervention group and the control group before and after the training program implementation, children’s total cycling knowledge increased in the intervention group. The cycling education program improved children's knowledge of road signs, age requirements, and risky behaviours. The results show that the cycling education program achieved significant improvements in all tested children's cycling skills. However, it was noticed that there was no significant intervention effect between control and intervention group in terms of the bicycle checking before riding.Conclusions: The current research, as a pilot study, provides evidence that cycling education programs might be effective in improving cycling-related knowledge and cycling skills among children. Future efforts should be directed towards promotion and implementation of cycling safety education programs in elementary schools where there is no formal cycling training for children on traffic safety, as well as towards monitoring of long-term effects of cycling training.