A Comparison of Road Safety in the Baltic Sea Region

The paper compares road safety and accident data for the ten Baltic Countries: Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The results obtained show remarkable differences between old and new EU countries in road safety situation. The Estonian Road Administration has set up targets for improvement of safety on roads. The Estonian National Road Safety Program declares that in the next ten-fifteen years the number of fatalities should be decreased by half or from 200 to 100. According to the target set by the Council of State of Finland the aim is to reduce the number of fatalities from 400 to 250 by the year 2005. For the covering abstract see ITRD E136183.

• Authors:
  • PIHLAK, I
  • ANTOV, D
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 9p
• Serial:
  • COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING ROAD SAFETY IN RURAL AREAS - INTEGRATING THE FOUR ES - EDUCATION, ENFORCEMENT, ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ICTCT WORKSHOP, TARTU, ESTONIA, OCTOBER 2004

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Fatalities; Manual safety belts; Rural areas; Speed limits; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Denmark; Europe; Poland; Russia (Federation)
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8525: Conference; 8028: Denmark; 8034: Europe; 1602: Fatality; 8089: Poland; 328: Rural area; 8156: Russia; 1476: Safety belt; 624: Speed limit; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01087449
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 29 2008 10:37AM