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Comparison of Road Safety Policy Objectives in Poland and in the European Union

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Transport Development Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

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The aim of the chapter is to identify main actions undertaken within the Polish road safety policy and to assess its efficacy based on the system approach, as well as to present recommendations for enhancing road safety in Poland. In the first part of the chapter key objectives of the EU road safety policy are elaborated. Then, the situation in Poland related to the number of road fatalities and to the causes of accidents is described, and policy instruments in Poland are presented. In the last part of the text an attempt is made to evaluate the Polish road safety policy. Besides, recommendations for improving road safety performance in Poland are elaborated on. In conclusion, it is stated that—according to the system approach—the efficacy of road safety instruments is determined by many factors and requires an integrated set of different actions.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Costs of both road accidents and collisions accounted in 2013 for 2.9 % of Polish GDP [6].

  2. 2.

    According to ETSC, this document fell short of the expectations and did not provide a clear vision and priorities, which could be the basis for creating appropriate instruments and initiatives [11].

  3. 3.

    A general overview of the EU’s legislation related to road safety is available at [20].

  4. 4.

    The issues of main problems leading to and resulting from the poor road safety in Poland are discussed in more detail in Sect. 4.

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Paradowska, M. (2016). Comparison of Road Safety Policy Objectives in Poland and in the European Union. In: Bąk, M. (eds) Transport Development Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26848-4_11

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