Formation of roadside service facilities in Belarus: problem formulation and solutions

Introduction. The article analyzes the domestic and foreign papers devoted to the study of the transport infrastructure of motor roads and recommendations for its further development. A special place is given to the issues of architectural and construction formation of roadside service network facilities due to the insufficient elaboration of the problem and the almost complete lack of implementation of the available research results. The research object is the structure and content of scientific papers on the most important aspects of forming the roadside infrastructure. The study aims to provide insight to the current situation in the arrangement of major motor roads in Belarus, reveal the most significant domestic and foreign research in accordance with the selected topics, and define the promising areas of building up a service system based on the gained experience and elaborated recommendations . Materials and methods. The study used systematization, structural and comparative analysis, the theoretical generalization of the data obtained in the detailed study of literary sources of domestic and foreign authors. Results. A review of a wide range of studies on the roadside service formation and development in Belarus and abroad was performed. The paper substantiated the need for developing theoretical and practical science-based recommendations based on the results achieved in several important areas. Conclusions. The paper considered and systematized the papers devoted to various aspects of roadside service network formation. The problem issues of infrastructure development and possible ways of solving urgent problems were identified. The most researched aspects of forming the roadside service objects were established. Issues of architectural and construction development of the network closely related to other areas require further studying. The study revealed that matters of motor road equipment with necessary facilities attract the attention of many researchers. Solving the problem of motor road infrastructural development on the quantitative and qualitative levels would assist in settling a whole series of economic, social, and engineering tasks.