The increasing mobility brings about a greater tendency for road safety that has become a global problem. With the adoption of the National Programme of the Road Traffic Safety in Slovenia, goals, measures and projects were determined, which contributed to a greater road safety. Some of the factors that affect the road safety are road users, vehicles, road infrastructure and the environment; the most important of them all are people.
The main goal of road safety is to achieve the Vision Zero, which means eliminating all fatalities and severe injuries of road users. The number of fatalities on Slovenian roads varies, but the lowest number of fatalities in the history of recording was achieved last year.
The studies show that the degree of road safety is the highest on motorways; however, the number of fatalities is still too high. The higher the number of fatalities in road traffic, the higher the socio-economic costs of traffic accidents. Dars, the operator and provider of maintenance services for Slovenian motorways, allocates a lot of funds to increase road safety, encompassing the costs of eradication of black spots, the costs of traffic management as well as the costs of traffic signalisation and equipment.
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