Abstract:
Slovenia has a rather poor road traffic safety record. In the European Union as a whole there are around 100 fatalities per million inhabitants per year, but in Slovenia there are around 140. If drivers respected traffic signs we would not need traffic calming measures, but this is not the case. Slovenia has to introduce special solutions on the road network or on the roadway so that drivers are forced to respect speed limits. Based on foreign experience (Netherlands, Germany, Austria), Slovenia began to introduce traffic calming measures. Over the years, the authors have found that identical measures may not have the same results in different countries because of different mindsets, so Slovenia has to produce its own set of traffic calming measures. They were selected using the before – after method on different categories of road, and on the basis of effectiveness. From field results, the authors determined that the choice of traffic calming measures depends on the type of road, operating speed and traffic volume. Regarding this research, the authors prepared a table of the most effective traffic calming measures on Slovenian roads.
