Review article

Today, the difficulty of achieving the targets of the Road Traffic Safety Strategy (RTS) of the Russian Federation has already become evident. This paper presents a new conceptual view on the problem of providing the road traffic safety. The authors demonstrate an informationentropic approach in establishing the unique specificity of urban or regional road traffic safety systems. This approach is based on structural analysis and identification of critical links in the process of road accident formation. The specificity of the structure of system processes of road traffic accident formation in the cities-administrative centers of the Northwestern Federal district is analyzed. The results of the research open a new theoretical direction in the study of problems of providing road traffic safety.