Department for Traffic Safety

Department for Traffic Safety is a part of the Sector for Strategy, Designing and Development.

Main tasks of the Department for Traffic Safety on state roads of the Republic of Serbia are the following:

Department actively follows all innovations and achievements in the field of traffic safety, participates in professional meetings and seminars as well as in different committees (harmonization of technical standards in this field) and tracks novelties on the market of materials used for this purpose.

TRAFFIC SAFETY POLICY

Basis of the Traffic Safety Policy ico-adobe on the roads in the Public Enterprise “Roads of Serbia” is as follows:

 - Strategic orientation of the Republic of Serbia in road transport sector towards the increase of the level of traffic safety on roads;
 - Public Enterprise should manage the upgrade of traffic safety on state roads in accordance with development policy and objectives of the Republic of Serbia.

This Policy will be implemented through midterm and long-term activity and development plan and annual Business Plan of the PE “Roads of Serbia”. Road Traffic Safety Policy is harmonized with the Maintenance and Environment Protection Policies.


MAIN INDICATORS OF SAFETY ON STATE ROADS

In the period from 2001 to 2009, the number of fatalities on public roads ranged up to 1,300. In 2010, after the adoption of the new Law on Traffic Safety on Roads, there was a significant decrease of the number of fatalities, which was the lowest in 2010 since the situation of road traffic safety had been statistically monitored, namely 660 persons were killed. In the period from 2013 to 2016, there was a dominant reduction of the number of fatalities in traffic accidents compared to the baseline year 2010, however it was without equal decreasing trend of the fatalities in traffic accidents.


Table 1. Overview of the number of traffic accidents and fatalities in the period 2001-2023

Existing statistical researches can hardly give precise separation and ranking of the degree of impact of road on the process of traffic accident occurrence, due to the complexity and interactions of all factors.


Pic. 1. Number of fatalities in traffic accidents in the period from 2001-2023 

Traffic safety situation on public roads in the Republic of Serbia was 8.4 fatalities/100,000 residents (2015), according to the size of public risk (annual number of fatalities per 100,000 residents).

General situation regarding traffic safety in the Republic of Serbia can be explained with traditional neglect of traffic safety in the previous period, both politically and socially and in respect of legislation and finance.