Review article

The article presents a substantiation of the necessity for an integrated (systematic) approach to solving the problems of road traffic injuries and research on the assessment of road safety criteria. The main regulatory documents - tools for reducing the road traffic accident rate in Russia - have been analyzed. The extent to which performance targets and indicators have to be improved is justified. The causes for the complication of the road transport situation are specified and factors of progressive increase of accidents are designated. The authors offer a comprehensive approach to solving the problems of accident rate reduction based on the use of system-forming indicators of road infrastructure to identify causes and factors, accident risk indicators and places of their concentration, a system of parameter assessment.