New Approaches to Improving Protection of the Urban Environment from Transport Accidents Based on the Use of Safe Materials

The relevance of safety problems of a wide range of anti-icing materials and chemical anti-icing reagents used in the municipal economy is predetermined by a number of aspects and factors associated with the negative impact of anti-icing products on the natural environment, property and health of citizens, its lack of effectiveness in terms of ensuring transport safety, preventing causes, conditions of occurrence of transport accidents, the growth of injuries of the population in winter. The objective of the study was to study the possibility of using ash and slag mixtures that are practically harmless to the environment together with organic additives from plant waste as complex anti-icing materials. The objective of the work was to study possibility of using practically environmentally friendly ash and slag mixtures along with organic additives as complex anti0icing materials. The main tasks comprised comparative analysis of effectiveness and safety of anti-icing materials used, justification of the possibility of replacing them with ash and slag secondary disposals, assessment of the current situation with handling of ash and slag waste, technical feasibility, environmental acceptability, economic feasibility of their reuse as designated at road transport infrastructure facilities. The projected results of the study were reduction of the technospheric load on the natural environment, prevention of all types of negative impact on the health of citizens, their personal property, replacement of valuable natural raw materials with secondary ones, prevention of transport accidents and related man-made emergencies. Based on the results of the study, it is planned to conduct full-scale tests and, in case of obtaining positive results that determine safety and effectiveness of the use of a new anti-icing material, to apply for a patent for an invention with further implementation of an innovative proposal in various regions of the Russian Federation.