Traffic Safety Problems in Lithuania

Next to the positive effect on economics, transport also has a detrimental effect on the environment and society. Big damage is caused by the road transport accidents where people become killed or injured, vehicles and transport constructions broken, and environment polluted by the spill of fuel, oil, transported materials, etc. Each year the global figures of the people who die in automobile traffic accidents reaches 700,000 and number of injured reaches 15 to 20 million. In other words, more than 1 in 100 people are killed in the world every day and more than 40,000 become injured. Rapid growth of auto mobilization causes an increasing number of problems in the efforts to ensure safe traffic in Lithuanian roads and streets. Ensuring safe traffic is one of the most urgent traffic problems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

  Linköping,   Sweden  SE-581 95
• Authors:
  • Pikunas, Alvydas
  • Astrauskas, Juozas
  • Pumputis, Vidmantas
  • Kinderyte-Poskiene, Jurgita
• Conference:
  • Road Safety on Four Continents: 13th International Conference
  • Location: Warsaw , Poland
  • Date: 2005-10-5 to 2005-10-7
• Publication Date: 2005-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: Road Safety on Four Continents, Warsaw, Poland, 5-7 October 2005, Conference Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Casualties; Crash injuries; Fatalities; Highway safety; Injuries; Injury rates; Injury severity; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Lithuania
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01090676
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 27 2008 10:25AM