Scientific paper ID 1658 : 2018/2

Russian civil law recognizes transport as a source of increased danger in the field of road traffic. Legal regulation of public relations is a decisive factor in ensuring road safety. In the article the general characteristic of measures of administrative responsibility for offenses in the sphere of traffic in the Russian Federation is given. Measures of administrative responsibility are applied in the manner prescribed by law to the person who committed an administrative offense. The application of measures of administrative responsibility carries with it the goal of educating people who have already committed this offense, and also aims to prevent new violations. On the basis of the current Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, this article deals with the most frequently applied administrative liability measures: administrative warning, administrative penalty, confiscation of the instrument of commission or the subject of an administrative offense, deprivation of the special right granted to an individual, administrative arrest. The legal framework that regulates traffic s timely improvement in order to meet the conditions of the developing society.