Road Traffic Safety in Latvia
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol.222: 13th International Scientific Conference on People, Buildings and Environment (PBE 2018) 2019
Juris Smirnovs, Aldis Lāma

The article discusses development trends in road traffic safety indicators in Latvia. Changes in society and vehicle fleet after the regain of independence created new situation on the roads. More dynamic vehicle fleet allowed achieving higher average speed of the traffic flow. Reduction in the service level of public transport resulted in much higher use of cars which in turn led to increased traffic flow density. Currently the use of cars in Latvia and in particular in the rural areas has become an integral part of everyday life. It is obvious, that road traffic safety improvement is a complex and complicated task. Despite some achievements during past years, general road traffic safety situation in comparison to other EU countries has still relatively big improvement potential. The article is thus aimed at showing the influence of automobilization increase on road traffic safety level and discussing the reasons for improving road traffic safety level.


Keywords
Road traffic
DOI
10.1088/1755-1315/222/1/012001
Hyperlink
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/222/1/012001

Smirnovs, J., Lāma, A. Road Traffic Safety in Latvia. In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol.222: 13th International Scientific Conference on People, Buildings and Environment (PBE 2018), Czech Republic, Brno, 17-19 October, 2018. Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2019, Article number 012001. ISSN 1755-1307. e-ISSN 1755-1315. Available from: doi:10.1088/1755-1315/222/1/012001

Publication language
English (en)
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