The Typical Traffic Accident in Lithuania In Comparison with Sweden

Rasa Ušpalytė−Vitkūnienė ,Aliaksei Laureshyn

doi:10.7250/bjrbe.2020-15.484

Abstract

Every day we strive to improve the environment and make it as comfortable as possible, creating new products and new technologies that are literally changing people’s lives. Transport is one of the most important engines of development in the world and, unfortunately, it is one of the most painful taking into account how many people’s lives we are losing in it. Ensuring safe traffic, stabilizing a number of accidents, reducing accidents on motor roads and streets are the most important tasks in the field of transport in Lithuania and the EU today. Lithuania could not be left behind when the EU countries pursued an important goal of halving the number of fatalities by the end of 2010 compared to 2001. Substantial road accident rates are recorded in cities with the highest concentration of road users. The aim of this article is to identify the typical accidents for Lithuanian cities and to compare them with the case of Sweden, which is one of the leading countries in the field of traffic safety. The five largest cities in Lithuania been selected for the analysis, where typical traffic accidents are identified. The analysis will help develop recommendations for changes in traffic infrastructure to ensure safe traffic.

Highlights

Lithuania was and still is one of the worst countries in the European Union in terms of traffic accident indicators
The key message is that improving road safety has to be based on an effective, science-based action that will reduce the number of road accidents and their victims, under the condition that they be perceived as a problem for society as a whole;
The most typical accidents in the Lithuanian cities are:. Pedestrian access in both cases, which accounts for 35% in all analysed Lithuanian cities; Other

Summary

Introduction

Lithuania was and still is one of the worst countries in the European Union in terms of traffic accident indicators. Ensuring traffic safety, stabilising accident rate, reducing the number of killed and injured persons on roads and streets are the most important tasks in the field of transport in Lithuania, and in the EU. The European Commission was set up to improve road safety and to ensure greater effectiveness than the impact of individual actions in separated countries. Another document “White paper – European transport policy for 2010: Time to decide” was issued in November 2001 This programme has set the new quantitative target that is the reduction in the number of road accidents by half or to no more than 20 thousand casualties in 2010. The Transport Ministers of the European Union countries pledged to reduce the number of fatalities by 50% between 2001 and 2010 in 2000 To achieve this goal, methodical decision-making had to be approached. It will help develop recommendations for changes in traffic infrastructure ensuring safe traffic

General problem in Lithuanian cities

Comparison between the Lithuanian and Swedish accident patterns

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