Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- From 1 April, Uzbekistan will reduce the maximum speed of vehicles to 60 kilometers per hour.

This is envisaged by the Decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On the State Program for the Implementation of the Development Strategy of New Uzbekistan for 2022–2026 in the “Year of Care for the Person and Quality Education”.

The President instructed, starting from 1 April 2023, in the cities of Tashkent and Nukus, as well as regional and district centers, to reduce the maximum speed of vehicles from 70 kilometers to 60 kilometers per hour.

Experts from the Institute for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research (IPMI) analyzed how the decrease in the maximum speed affects the traffic situation (average speed of transport) and road deaths.

As part of the study, the following results were obtained:

1) Reducing the maximum speed in cities by 10 km/h can help reduce mortality by 0.8 people per 100,000 population per year. For Uzbekistan, this is 614 saved lives.

2) The maximum speed does not have a significant effect on the average speed. The main influence on the speed of movement and travel time is the quality of the road infrastructure.