Allocation of financial sources for road transport incidents decreasing

Abstract

A significant attention across the world is focused on factors that influence to an assessment of road transport safety. Because of implementation into huge area structures is there in Slovakia this problem also evaluated in pan-european measure. A lot of visitors and tourists in Slovak Republic (SR) had a possibility to notice that level and quality of road communications in Slovakia is not in good condition. Because the quality of road communication together with technical condition of vehicle and driver’s forwardness is one of decisive factors for accident formation, it is suitable to follow this indicator also from the view of changing economy of country. It is clear that with increasing investment into development, reparations or maintenance of road net, the appearance of transport accidents will be decreasing. From what sources to finance these reparations? With the aim of collecting of sources for development or reparations of road net is “the motor vehicle tax” established in Slovak Republic. This tax is paid by entrepreneurs per each vehicle that is used in business. A great income for the state budget is also toll collecting that tasks mainly the transporter who make businesses in freight transport. This article focuses on the influence of collecting of sources from road net users and following investment into development and maintenance of road net for accidents in road communications in SR decreasing.