Adjusting speed to road signs and current road conditions has a significant impact on the safety of those traveling in a vehicle and those in its vicinity. The article presents the current legal status regarding permissible speeds on roads, as well as speed limits in EU countries. Attention is also drawn to changes in the number of road accident fatalities in recent years. The second part presents analyses of vehicle speeds in the vicinity of automatic speed control stations.Speed, alongside density and volume, is one of the fundamental parameters characterizing traffic flow. This value depends, among other things, on the situation on the road and the road geometry. In free-flow conditions, a driver has the ability to decide on the vehicle’s speed themselves. Unfortunately, driving at excessive speed is one of the most common traffic offenses [13]. A driver of a motor vehicle, by exceeding the speed limit on a given road section, exposes themselves and other road users to the risk of a traffic incident, among other things, by shortening the time needed to react to various random factors. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine
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