Ensuring Road Safety as an Object of National Scientific and Technical Activity in the 21st Century

The purpose of this publication is to determine the main directions of national scientific and technical activity in the field of road safety in the period from 2000 to 2024 in accordance with the modern formulation of problems stated in the Concept of Road Safety. For this purpose, research, development and experimental technological works registered in the State Register of Research Works as well as abstracts posted in the electronic catalogue of the National Library of Belarus, were reviewed. The article describes methods for searching source data in the specified electronic databases. The results are presented as quantitative data characterizing R&D in the field of road safety, carried out over the past 25 years in the Republic of Belarus in the context of departmental subordination of the implementing organizations, as well as the scientific problems being solved. A downward trend in the scientific and technical activities in the previous five years is shown and probable causes for its occurrence are formulated. Analysis of dissertation research shows the presence of an expert community in the field of road safety. In the author's opinion, the number of qualifying scientific works and their subject matter are clear signs of the formation of the specialty “Ensuring Road Safety”. The formalization of this specialty could provide an additional impetus to the development in this direction. As a result of the work carried out, directions for further research are proposed, which can be either a continuation of this work or new ones, that meet current challenges of road safety, based on the principles of interdepartmental cooperation.

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