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Keywords: Road safety; vehicle; traffic accident; International Roughness Index; highway; IRI; roughness; road surface.
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
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safety, which is one of the priority areas of state policy and an important factor in ensuring sustainable socio-
economic and demographic development of the country and aimed at preserving the life, health and property of
citizens of the Russian Federation.
Within the Russian Federation, relevant target programs of various levels are being developed and successfully
implemented. A landmark event in the road industry was the launch of the national project “Safe and High-Quality
Roads”, developed by the Ministry of Transport of Russia in pursuance of Decree of the President of the Russian
Federation dated May 7, 2018 No. 204 “On National Goals and Strategic Objectives for the Development of the
Russian Federation for the period up to 2024”. The project has become a logical continuation of the joint work of the
federal and regional departments of the road sector, the key goal of which is to improve the quality of life in the
population.
Within the framework of the national project “Safe and High-Quality Roads”, special attention is paid to the
quality of the roads themselves, as well as technical means of organizing traffic, which is reflected in one of the
goals of the Project, namely, bringing the road network of urban agglomerations to the standard state (in 2018 –
50%, in 2025 – 85%); reduction in the number of places of concentration of traffic accidents on the road network of
urban agglomerations (in 2018 – by 50% from the level of 2016, in 2025 – by 85%). The quality of roads and related
infrastructure depends on a large number of parameters. One of these is the operational indicators of the road
(Evtukov and others, 2018; Kurakina and others.2019; Petrov, 2021; Kurakina and others, 2020; Rajczyk and others,
2018; Golov, 2021; Evtukov and others, 2017; Evtukov and others, 2019; Kvitchuk and others, 2022).
2. Methods
A negative consequence of motorization is traffic accidents, one of the reasons for which is the insufficiently high
quality of road conditions. The vast majority of accidents are the result of not a single negative impact of a particular
factor, but their combination, which ultimately forms a traffic accident.
A special place in ensuring traffic safety belongs to road conditions, i.e. transport and operational characteristics
of roads. There are a large number of parameters that directly depend on the maintenance of roads and which, at a
low level, can cause a traffic accident or increase the likelihood of its occurrence. The most common of these are the
slipperiness of the roadway and the value of longitudinal roughness that does not meet regulatory requirements.
According to official statistics, deficiencies in the operational condition, arrangement of the road network and
railway crossings were recorded in 41,521 accidents, which accounted for a third (34%) of the total number of
registered accidents in 2021 (Fig. 1) – in these traffic situations 4,221 were killed and 51,882 were injured.
Fig. 1. Share of accidents with unsatisfactory road conditions of the total number of accidents.
The roughness of the road surface is one of the main indicators characterizing the convenience of driving on the
road and having a decisive influence on the speed of vehicles and the transportation function of the road as a whole.
In the modern world practice of monitoring the roughness of roads over the past 10–15 years, the International
Roughness Index (IRI) has become the most widely used. The unsatisfactory condition of the road surface is a
prerequisite for the emergence of a number of negative factors that adversely affect the conditions for the movement
of vehicles in the flow. Such is the vibration effect, which harms both the car and the driver. In addition, the working
conditions of the driver become much more complicated due to the fact that he is constantly forced to monitor the
road condition, the presence of potholes, pits, cracks on the way, while slowing down and picking up speed,
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adjusting to the traffic situation and often changing the trajectory of movement. Such circumstances lead to the fact
that the driver's attention is concentrated on maneuvers, and not on other important components from the point of
view of ensuring traffic safety. Under such conditions, an increase in the accident rate is an inevitable phenomenon.
Fig. 2-5 are photographs of road sections with different indicators of surface roughness.
Fig. 2. Road section with IRI equal to 0-1 mm/m. Fig. 3. Road section with IRI equal to 1-2 mm/m.
Fig. 4. Road section with IRI equal to 2-4 mm/m. Fig. 5. Road section with IRI equal to 4-6 mm/m.
A general analysis of data on road traffic accidents shows that with the deterioration of the road surface
roughness, the number of road traffic accidents increases. Previous studies on the issues under consideration
establish a direct relationship between the roughness of the pavement and the number of accidents. However, it
should be noted that the increase in the number of accidents is not observed indefinitely, but up to a certain limit,
after reaching which there is a sharp decrease in the number of accidents, since the corresponding roughness
indicators are inherent in areas with an unsatisfactory operational condition, which forces vehicle drivers to
significantly reduce speed (Prashant and others, 2018; Heriberto and others, 2021; Gong and others, 2018;
Dobromirov and others, 2017).
In order to study the influence of the roadway roughness index on the level of road safety and the likelihood of an
accident, an analysis of the data on the roughness of federal roads of the Russian Federation (expressed in the
International Roughness Index (IRI), mm/m) was made, data on the intensity of traffic funds and data on recorded
road accidents were studied. The list of studied areas is presented in Table 1.
Fig.7. Graph of the roughness index of the section of the M-2 “Crimea” highway: Moscow – Tula – Orel – Kursk - Belgorod - border with
Ukraine – Prokhorovka – Gubkin - R-298 Kursk - Voronezh - R-22 “Caspian” highway.
One of the main indicators that characterize the accident rate on roads is the risk of an accident, which implies a
quantitative expression of road accidents per 1 million car-km. To establish this value, a systematic analysis of the
available initial data for each studied road section was carried out, and a graph was constructed that reflects the trend
in the number of accidents depending on the roughness index in the corresponding section (Onayev and others,
2021; Abulizi and others, 2016).
3. Results
It was found that regardless of the number of lanes, the technical category of the road, the general nature of the
dependence under study is similar in each case under consideration. Examples of graphic dependence for highways
R-132 “Golden Ring” Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Ivanovo - Vladimir - Gus-Khrustalny - Ryazan - Mikhailov - Tula -
Kaluga - Vyazma - Rzhev - Tver - Uglich - Yaroslavl, A-122 “A-114 - Ustyuzhna - Kresttsy - Yazhelbitsy - Velikiye
Luki – Nevel”, M-9 “Baltiya” Moscow - Volokolamsk - border with the Republic of Latvia, Belgorod-M-4 “Don”
Moscow – Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don – Krasnodar - Novorossiysk, as well as the resulting graph are presented in
Fig.8-12. The nature of the change in the speed of the vehicle, depending on the regardless index is shown in Fig.13.
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0,40 0,40
0,35 0,35
Accident risk indicator
0,40 0,40
0,35 0,35
Accident risk indicator
0,30 0,30
Accident risk indicator
0,25 0,25
0,20 y = -0.0045x2 + 0.0467x + 0.2325 0,20
0,15 R² = 0.85 y = -0.0058x2 + 0.0555x + 0.2228
0,15
R² = 0.80
0,10 0,10
0,05 0,05
0,00 0,00
0,0 1,0 2,0 3,0 4,0 5,0 6,0 7,0 8,0 9,0 10,0 0,0 1,0 2,0 3,0 4,0 5,0 6,0 7,0 8,0 9,0 10,0
IRI, mm/m IRI, mm/m
100
0,40
0,35
80
0,30
Accident risk indicator
Speed, km/h
0,25 60
0,20 y = -0.0053x2 + 0.0527x + 0.224
0,15 R² = 0.90 40
0,10
0,05 20
0,00
0
0,0 1,0 2,0 3,0 4,0 5,0 6,0 7,0 8,0 9,0 10,0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
IRI, mm/m
IRI, mm/m
Fig. 12. Dependence of the accident risk indicator on the road Fig. 13. Graph of the change in vehicle speed depending on
surface roughness of the sections of the considered federal the road surface roughness.
roads.
4. Discussion
Approximation of the dependence of the accident risk indicator on the longitudinal roughness of the road surface
(x) for roads of various types has the following expression:
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The analysis of the obtained set of points made it possible to construct a trend line with a high degree of accuracy.
The approximation reliability value was 0.90, which indicates the reliability of the obtained approximation.
As can be seen from the graphs, when the IRI reaches the value of 5.0-5.5 mm/m, the risk of traffic accidents
decreases. This circumstance finds an explanation in the following: the peculiarity of the driver's perception of
damage on the road is such that a significant number or scale of damage forces a person to choose an appropriate
model of behavior on the road, i.e., to reduce speed in order to avoid damage to the vehicle or the potential
occurrence of an accident. Thus, the presence of a statistical relationship between the roughness of the road surface
and the likelihood of an accident is proved, which once again confirms the importance of this indicator for road
safety (Burtyl and others, 2021; Gladushevskiy, 2021; Kurakina and others, 2020; Kurakina, 2018; Piryonesi and
others, 2021; Alberti and others, 2017; Eboli and others, 2020).
The resulting analytical expressions can be used to assess and predict the level of road safety depending on
changes in the roughness of the road surface. An analysis of these dependencies shows that for the considered types
of roads in the studied range of changes in the international roughness index, the polynomial function with
approximation reliability coefficients R2 = 0.90 has the highest statistical convergence with experimental data,
which allows us to conclude that the description of the real distribution is highly accurate.
The accident probability indicator is calculated by the formula:
(2)
Table 2. Comparison of the results of calculating the risk indicator of road accidents in places of concentration of road accidents in the Udmurt
Republic for 2019 according to the known expression and according to the obtained dependence.
Table 3. Comparison of the results of calculating the risk indicator of road accidents in places of concentration of road accidents in the Udmurt
Republic for 2020 according to the known expression and according to the obtained dependence.
Table 4. Comparison of the results of calculating the risk indicator of road accidents in places of concentration of road accidents in the Udmurt
Republic for 2021 according to the known expression and according to the obtained dependence.
The analysis of the dependencies presented in Figs. 8-13 made it possible to build a three-dimensional model that
displays the nature of the change in the two previously obtained functions in three-dimensional space (Fig. 14).
Fig. 14. A spatial model that characterizes the dependence of the accident risk and the car speed on the roughness of the road surface.
Based on the obtained data, it seems possible to determine the value of the longitudinal roughness of the road
surface, upon reaching which it is advisable to introduce a speed limit for vehicles on the corresponding section of
the road before the repair work is carried out by installing road signs 3.24 along its borders, which is clearly
demonstrated by the three-dimensional graph in Fig. 14.
5. Conclusions
Analyzing the obtained calculated data (tables 2-4), it can be stated that the calculation according to the proposed
method is sufficiently accurate and efficient and can be used to predict the level of road safety, as well as to prevent
the formation of dangerous sections on roads. It is advisable to use the results of this study for road balance holders
and operating organizations in the formation and approval of the schedule for the main work on the repair and
maintenance of roads, the implementation of preventive measures of various scales: low-cost (installation of signs,
applying horizontal and vertical markings), medium-cost (replacement of worn layers, sealing holes, cracks,
potholes, ruts), and large-cost (major repairs, reconstruction).
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