Solutions of a Multicriteria Problem of Optimum Placement of Short-term Rest Areas on Highways

The authors consider in the article the problem of optimum placement of short-term rest areas on highways. Determination of the optimum quantity of such short-term rest areas is a multicriteria problem including diverse factors, among which there are qualitative ones. The statistical analysis of the correlation between the age and experience of the driver and the driving speed of a single-unit car on highways has proved the presence of influence, which is, however, not significant statistically. It is proposed to use a new functional dependence for short-term rest areas, in which quantitative and qualitative factors characterizing the driver, the car and the road will be taken into consideration through a set of coefficients.