Improvement of environmental safety in construction and road service
The paper considers the road transportation sector in the context of the negative impacts of the global economic and financial crises on the environment. The ecology-oriented development of the road construction, road repair and maintenance are described herein. The promising research and innovation development in Siberia includes the ways to increase the stability of asphalt concrete pavements, studying the possibilities of waste utilization produced by the local industrial enterprises (for example, stillage residues of the chemical industry) for the road asphalt modification; replacement of rock materials used in the upper and lower layers of the pavement coatings by by-passed stone, utilization of plastics scrap and rubber in polymer modification.