CZASOPISMO INŻYNIERII LĄDOWEJ, ŚRODOWISKA I ARCHITEKTURY JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE JCEEA, t. XXXIII, z. 63 (1/II/16), styczeń-marzec 2016, s. 161-168 Jacek CHMIELEWSKI 1 GUIDELINES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IT ROAD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The article presents the role, need and idea of implementing an IT system to man- age road safety, which is a proposal of the practical implementation of the Gambit programme elements prepared for the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. The use- fulness of constructing the system has been presented, together with its users, the proposed content and possibility of its funding. The whole article has been summarised by outlining the opportunities and threats that may occur in the course of system implementation. Keywords: traffic engineering, IT system, road safety 1. Sources of Road and Traffic Safety Data Both in Poland and abroad, issues of road safety deals with a number of insti- tutions and organizations, among which first of all local and central government units (including city councils and road authorities), the police and the design and research offices should be mentioned. The basis for the work and research related to traffic, especially on the road safety, should be widely available and reliable databases. In the era of universal access to high-speed internet network, either from the computer stations and mobile devices, the most common and simplest form of presentation of data collected in databases are web portals, which, thanks to the readability of this content and intuitive user interface, enable easy access to information almost for all user. Nowadays widely available and free databases typically enable to obtain overall statistics in the field of transport, road infrastruc- ture or road safety. They concern worldwide, as presented in the IRTAD web da- tabase [1], the European Union, as well as the country's internet portals, among others, The National Road Safety Council, Polish Road Safety Observatory, the Police Headquarters. Data presented in these sources are aggregated, showing statistical information in the field of infrastructure and road traffic (ex. the length of the national road network), traffic incidents recorded in the given period and the selected area (ex. in the year, monthly), and also the nature and observed trends in 1 Jacek Chmielewski, University of Science and Technology, Department of Road and Transport Engineering, jacek-ch@utp.edu.pl