4. Estimating the Traffic Safety Problem
on Lithuanian Roads with the Help of ITS
An overview of statistics related to traffic safety in
Lithuania and Europe allows suggesting that traffic safety
is slowly improving in Lithuania. However, compared to
other EU member states, it still remains a big problem.
So far, traffic safety has not been sufficiently secured,
which can be related to the following problems:
• speed gauges are not always effective;
• the accident rate and its causes have not been
studied thoroughly;
• Lithuanian roads do not use modern and effective
ITSs, such as variable speed signs or average
speed gauge;
• every ITS operates uncoordinatedly