This paper develops a new traffic safety and organization evaluation method for the south region of Russia. This quantitative method is meant to be used in the highlands. The basic principles of the new mathematical method are to quantitatively evaluate the conditions of automobile motion at foothills, according to the values of speed of motion, road capacity, and traffic safety. The results of active and passive experimental investigations carried out for the space elements of the road alignments allowed the determination of the multifactor interpolation equations. These equations describe the relationship between the automobile speed change, the road capacity, and the accident rate. The new method was tested by the Krasnodar road police (the state road inspection) at the Kuban territory. The test results showed great advantages of the method in comparison with other methods. The new method helped: (1) to determine the potentially dangerous road sections; and (2) to prevent the traffic accidents. The application of the method at the Kuban territory increased both the traffic safety and organization.
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