Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Traffic Safety (17.S0331)

Native organizations units: Department of Traffic Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Traffic and Transport Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Traffic Planning, Regulation and Safety
ECTS	6

Learning about phenomena, causes, conditions and other factors influencing the situations that endanger people and properties in traffic, with a special emphasis on learning about traffic accidents (etiology). Acquiring knowledge on the possibilities of social organizations to adapt space for traffic without larger dangerous consequences on social values.

Possibility for professional overview on complex law in the origination of reasons that endanger people and property in traffic. Acquiring knowledge on the modes of determining the degree of risk in traffic. Possibility for rational management of traffic safety resources. Acquiring knowledge on the development and application of contemporary technologies in traffic management and control, i.e. intelligent transport systems, in order to create possibilities for rational, economic and safe traffic flows.

Course subject. Traffic safety methods. Notion of traffic accident phenomenology. Action mechanisms of traffic safety factors. Traffic accidents. Dynamics and structure of traffic accidents. Consequences of traffic accidents. Evaluation in the field of traffic safety. Structure and action rhythm in traffic. Executors of traffic accidents. Notion of traffic accident etiology. Traffic accident cause quantification. Objective factors. Technical factors. Road as a traffic safety factor. Vehicle as a traffic safety factor. Natural factors. Social factors. Hyman factor in traffic safety. Intelligent transport systems.

Lectures, auditory and computer practice. Within the course, students should complete a seminar paper where they will apply acquired knowledge in the analysis of traffic accidents.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	40.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Theoretical part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00