Safety Status on Road Transport System in the European Union

The main paper problem is to discuss safety status on road transport system in the European Union and how to improve it, especially by reduction number of victims. In theoretical part refers Sect. 2, the following research methods were used: analysis, analogy, synthesis, induction and deduction. Characteristics of road transport infrastructure, counties of the most and smallest total length of motorways, and the statistics of road accidents, dead and wounded people in the European Union were presented. Furthermore the paper discussed the characterization of dangerous goods in the EU and the advantages and disadvantages of road transport. In practical part refers Sect. 3, apart from mentioned theoretical, the empirical methods were applied: modelling and tests. Based the initiatives of the EU for road transport safety, some solutions of research projects in Poland were described, especially program of analyzing data from digital tachograph and smart cards, functional structure of National Automatic Toll Collection System with proposition of OBU and also methodic and prototype of eCall system. The paper resolved the main problem, the number of victims in the EU was significantly reduced from 54,900 in 2001 to 25,300 in 2017, by initiatives, legislative procedures and implemented Intelligent Transport Systems.