Description
Despite the fact that during the last decade many measures of road safety were implemented, infrastructure of roads was renewed, etc., however, the results are not satisfactory (especially in the area of pedestrians’ safety). In solving these problems it is necessary to evaluate the best practices of other countries in the organization of traffic safety. Norway has many years of experience in enhancing interinstitutional cooperation, the development of a sustainable model for traffic safety. This determines a low level of traffic accidents in this country. This is an example for Lithuania to follow, take over good practice of cooperation in the area of ensuring road safety and creating the sustainable mobility measures which ensure sustainable road safety. To this end, the project was initiated by the "Sustainable Traffic Safety realization based on the experience of Norway”, whose main goal -" Sustainable Mobility - Sustainable traffic safety ". There are different safety organization problems, whose solution provides for the implementation of project tasks and activities:
Summary of project results
Despite the fact that during the last decade many measures of road safety were implemented, infrastructure of roads was renewed, etc., however, the results were not satisfactory (especially in the area of pedestrians’ safety). Norway has many years of experience in enhancing interinstitutional cooperation, the development of a sustainable model for traffic safety. This determined a low level of traffic accidents in this country. This was an example for Lithuania to follow, take over good practice of cooperation in the area of ensuring road safety and creating the sustainable mobility measures, which ensure sustainable road safety. The project "Sustainable Traffic Safety realization based on the experience of Norway” was initiated by the project promoter in order to reach main goal -" Sustainable Mobility - Sustainable traffic safety ". In order to achieve planned results, such activities took place 1) traineeship in Norway and conference seminar “Dissemination of good practice – Encouragement of interinstitutional cooperation”; 2) a seminar “e-City – new technologies and trends in the area of sustainable mobility-road safety”; 3) a seminar “Creation of a sustainable road safety model – Involvement of social partners in the formation of road safety policy and measures”. 4) a cycle of 10 seminars on road safety at Kaunas and Garliava schools was organized During implementation of the project a study of the efficiency of implementation of the interactive public traffic safety measures was carried out. Even after implementation of the project, the measures suggested in the study are being introduced in this way insuring the continuity of the project.
Summary of bilateral results
The project partner in Norway is Norwegian Council for Road Safety (Trygg Trafikk) is an umbrella organization for the voluntary road safety work and serves as a link between voluntary associations and the road safety authorities. This organization has accumulated especially valuable experience in implementing interinstitutional cooperation principles in the field of road safety. The experience was conveyed to the institutions responsible for road safety in Lithuania. The project partner practically participated in all project activities and shared the good experience in the field of sustainable road safety and provided consulting on how to apply such interinstitutional cooperation model in Lithuania.