ROAD SAFETY DIFFERENCES IN THE BALTIC-NORDIC REGION
The aim of this paper is to compare and analyse the road safety and traffic behaviour of road users in the Baltic and Nordic countries (excluding Iceland). The large differences in traffic safety have decreased following the re-establishing of the independence of the Baltic countries in the beginning of the 1990s. The paper compares data such as accident location, fatalities among different road users, age and gender in fatal accidents and collision types. Furthermore, statistics and legislation concerning drunken driving, speeding, use of safety belt and other equipment is compared. A brief presentation of road user attitudes towards different accident prevention measures is also presented. For the covering abstract and the URL of the conference see ITRD E205706.
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Corporate Authors:
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Linköping, Sweden SE-581 95 -
Authors:
- Pihlak, I
- Antov, D
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 2001
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 66-76
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Serial:
- Issue Number: 15A
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; Behavior; Conferences; Crash rates; Crashes; Intoxication; Location; Manual safety belts; Seat belts; Speed; Travelers
- Geographic Terms: Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Latvia; Lithuania; Norway; Sweden
- ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1612: Accident rate; 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9001: Behaviour; 8525: Conference; 8028: Denmark; 2231: Drunkenness; 8153: Estonia; 8035: Finland; 8152: Latvia; 8151: Lithuania; 9061: Location; 8084: Norway; 1755: Road user; 1476: Safety belt; 5408: Speed; 8109: Sweden
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00822308
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 7 2002 12:00AM