The following main problems were solved in the research: • The factors negatively influencing the traffic safety system efficient interaction and reliability were identified. • Reliability of reaction calculations of the traffic participants. • Application of ANOVA in the research of the traffic participant’s reactions. • Application of the SAS software package in the research of the traffic accident causes. • Identification of factors influencing the formation of the traffic participant’s behaviour.

Šiame darbe nagrinėjama eismo saugumo politika Lietuvoje ir jos įgyvendinimo veiksmingumas. Santykinai avaringumo rodikliai Lietuvoje keletą kartų blogesni nei kitose išsivysčiusiose šalyse. Statistikos duomenimis, per metus Lietuvos keliuose žūva 700-800 žmonių. Europos Sąjungoje mirčių eismo įvykiuose skaičių sumažėjo 17 proc., tačiau Lietuvoje jų padaugėjo beveik 8 proc., todėl darbe analizuojamas eismo saugumo politikos įgyvendinimas, gilinamasi į šios politikos neveiksmingumo priežastis. Teorinėje dalyje aprašomas darbe taikomas G. Morgan teorinis pagrindas, išskiriamos galimos įgyvendinimo nesėkmės priežastys. Antrojoje, empirinėje dalyje taikomas tyrimo būdas – atvejo analizė. Analizuojama eismo saugumo politika Lietuvoje, tiriama, ar G. Morgan išskiriamos nesėkmingo įgyvendinimo priežastys egzistuoja Lietuvos atveju. / The object of this study – reasons for road safety policy implementation failure. The main purpose of master study – to clarify the reasons of inefficient implementation of road safety policy in Lithuania. Main goals of this study are as follows: to analyze G. Morgan theory and indentify presumable reasons for implementation failure; to verify, do these reasons for implementation failure exist in Lithuanian road safety policy. There are plenty of organizations, which are responsible for road safety policy implementation In Lithuania, but still, road safety situation does not improve. Decisions are made by Government, ministries, departments, but there is no one coordinating institution, which is responsible for road safety. Consequently the hypothesis of master study is that inefficient implementation of road safety policy in Lithuania is determined by disarray inside institutional system. The problems in institution system: non-existence of coordination and control and organizational unity, ineffective change management and incapacity to adapt, inappropriate organizational structure, ineffective human resource management. The main question of analysis - which problems of institutional system determine inefficient road safety policy in Lithuania? Ineffective change management is one of the most significant reasons, why the road safety policy is inefficient in Lithuania. A permanent observation of environment and capacity to adapt are necessary for effective change management... [to full text]

Child road safety education is one of the special aims for the comprehensive school. The education is one of the strategies of the traffic safety. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable category of traffic participants. Lithuania distinguishes by the biggest number of injuries of the pedestrians during accidents among other European countries. Considering the fact that formal obeying to the road traffic rules doesn’t guarantee the safety of the pedestrians, the most dangerous place for the pedestrian is the zebra crossing. Safe pedestrian traffic on the motor roads even formally obeying the Road Traffic Rules requires certain competence of road safety. People – pedestrians, their abilities to move safely in the dangerous environment of the motor road traffic are the most important factor in securing the safety of pedestrians. As demonstrated by the experience of other European countries safe traffic education programs that are being implemented in development practice are characterized by low efficiency when the change of the pupils’ behaviour in a real street is thought as the effectiveness of the education. The subject of the present dissertation is the development of child pedestrian road safety competence in the primary school. The goal of the dissertation is to reveal the situation of development of child road safety competence, to disclose the assumptions for road safety education in the primary school and their improvement, to interpret these assumptions theoretically... [to full text]

The purpose of the work is to analyze road safety and the quality of illumination in Akademija town, suggest the means for improving it. In the work there is car accidents in Lithuania and the town of Akademija analized; it was discovered, that in the period of 1980 – 2005 in the car accidents, 20637 people died and 14801 were injured. Since 2001, accident rate have been increased as the number of new cars and traffic flows is rising every day. Approximately 40 % of traffic accidents happen in the dark period of the day, and 70% of pedestrians, participating in the event, die. Traffic safety mostly depends on the level of illumination. In Akedemija town were fixed 142 traffic events, during last four years. There were injured 28 persons. The analysis for road illumination improvements was done and the illumination of the Akademija streets was observed. There are three streets in the area of Akademija and Ringaudai, illuminated enough, Mokyklos, Pilėnų and Tako (6 lx). Not enough there are lighted Student street and Pedestrian pathway between Akademija and Ringaudai. The worst situation is in the Universiteto Street. The illumination near the 5th dormitory hardly reaches 2.4 lx, and there is 4.5 lx illumination near the 6th dormitory. A part of Universiteto street is not lighted up at all. According to the requirements, with the help of computer program „Calculux road 6.2.2“, there is illumination of Akademija town designed and the economical evaluation done. The cost of... [to full text]