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ROSANNE Project: New Procedure for Noise Characterisation of Road Surfaces in Europe
PublicationROSANNE is a collaborative project in the 7th EU Framework Programme which aims at harmonising measurement methods for skid resistance, noise emission and rolling resistance of road pavements as a preparation for standardization. The project started in November 2013 and is developing and improving standards in the field of working group CEN/TC 227/WG 5. Regarding the influence of the pavement on the road traffic noise emission,...
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Analysis of regulations regarding transport of dangerous goods by road in Poland and in Europe
PublicationThe subject of the article are regulations regarding transport of hazardous materials in road transportation. In Poland, as well as in most European countries, these regulations are mainly governed by the ADR Agreement, which is a supra-national legal act. The article contains an analysis of the mentioned legal act. Despite the fact that the ADR Agreement harmonizes regulations concerning the transport of hazardous materials, there...
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Semi-Markov Approach to the Shipping Safety Modelling
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Modelling and uncertainty in system analysis for safety assessment.
PublicationArtykuł obejmuje zagadnienia związane z modelowaniem i reprezentacją niepewności i ilościowych oszacowaniach ryzyka. Problem jest istotny w praktyce, ponieważ wystęopujhą wymagania przeprowadzenia ocen niepewności miar probabilistycznych i ryzyka. Dyskutuje się potencjalne żródła niepewności i dokonuje sie przeglądu podstaw teoretycznych reprezentacji niepewności. W modelowaniu systemów zawierających nieprecyzyjnie zdefiniowane...
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Human Factors and Mechanical Engineering for Defense and Safety
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Preparation and implementation of the National Road Safety Programme GAMBIT 2005
PublicationKrajowy Program BRD GAMBIT 2005 jest spójny z najwazniejszymi dokumentami dotyczącymi rozwoju systemu transportu w Polsce (Polityka Transportowa, Strategia Rozwoju Transportu). Jest też spójny z III Planem BRD Unii Europejskiej. Program ten daje możliwość zintensyfikowania działań prewencyjnych, prowadzonych w celu ochrony zycia i zdrowia uczestników ruchu drogowego. Efektem tego programu będzie uratowanie życia kilkunastu tysiącom...
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Human and organizational factors in risk analysis and safety management of azardous
PublicationArtykuł porusza aktualne kwestie dyskutowane podczas warsztatów na temat czynników ludzkich i organizacyjnych w analizie ryzyka i zarządzaniu bezpieczeństwem instalacji przemysłowych wysokiego ryzyka. Zauważa się rosnącą świadomość, że eksploatacja złożonego systemu wyposażonego w środki bezpieczeństwa oraz redundancyjne układy zabezpieczeń i sterowania, zawierające jednostki programowalne, może spowodować większe uzależnienie...
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Online Journal Modelling the New Europe
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GAMBIT's position within the European Union's III Road Safety Plan
PublicationOtwarcie Seminarium GAMBIT 2006, poświęcone wnioskom z dotychczasowych działań oraz planom na przyszłość, zawartym w najnowszym Krajowym Programie GAMBIT 2005. Prace nad nim rozpoczęto w sierpniu 2004, czyli tuż po wejściu Polski do Unii Europejskiej. W kwietniu 2005 Rada Ministrów przyjęła GAMBIT 2005 jako program dla Polski na lata 2005-2013, skonstruowany zgodnie z metodyką opracowaną dla tych krajów UE-25, których poziom zagrożenia...
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Times Series Analysis Of Road Safety Trends At The Regional Level In Poland
PublicationThe paper presents possibility of applying a structural times series modeling with explanatory and intervention variables as a tool capable for explaining the changes in the monthly number of fatalities and seriously injured in traffic accidents. The analysis covers regional level and takes into consideration traffic accidents data of two regions: Pomorskie and Warmia-Mazury. In addition short-term forecasts for the two regions...
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Risk analysis and functional safety assessment with regard to human andorganisational factors
PublicationReferat poświęcono wybranym zagadnieniom analizy ryzyka i zarządzania bezpieczeństwem funkcjonalnym systemów związanych z bezpieczeństwem. Systemy takie, zawierające coraz częściej jednostki programowalne, są potencjalnie narażone na błędy człowieka, które mają swoje źródło w uchybieniach organizacyjnych. W procesie analizy ryzyka takich systemów proponuje się stosować metody jakościowe i ilościowe. Potencjalne błędy człowieka...
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Roadside safety management - Erasmus+ European Digital Education in Road Infrastructure Management INFRO@D
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Marcin Budzyński dr inż.
PeopleI am a Faculty member (Assistant Professor, Highway and Transportation Engineering Department) at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland). My main research interests include: road safety, including the build and implementation of safety management tools, modeling of safety measures. In addition, road infrastructure design, economic and multi-criteria analyzes for road investments....
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Modelling the Safety Levels of ICT Equipment Exposed to Strong Electromagnetic Pulses
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Theoretical modelling of efficient fire safety water networks by certified domination
PublicationThis paper explores a new way of designing water supply networks for fire safety using ideas from graph theory, focusing on a method called certified domination. Ensuring a good water supply is crucial for fire safety in communities, this study looks at the rules and problems in Poland for how much water is needed to fight fires in different areas and how this can be achieved at a lowest possible cost. We present a way to plan...
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Managing safety of industrial hazardous installations with emphasis on the control systems, interfaces and human factors
PublicationIn the paper a procedure for the layer of protection analysis (LOPA) as a tool to evaluate the risk of accident scenarios occurrence in hazardous installations is outlined. In such installations several protection layers exist. Human operator performance in each layer is unavoidable, but the role and tasks are different and depend on the context of situation. Based on suggestions form literature (EEMUA, CREAM) and own proposals...
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Tomasz Janowski dr
PeopleTomasz Janowski is the Head of the Department of Informatics in Management, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at the Department for E-Governance and Administration, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly, Elsevier. Previously, he was the founder and head of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance...
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Knowledge-based functional safety and security management in hazardous industrial plants with emphasis on human factors
PublicationExisting and emerging new hazards have significant potential to impact destructively operation of technical systems, hazardous plants, and systems / networks of critical infrastructure. The programmable control and protection systems play nowadays an important role in reducing and controlling risk in the process of hazardous plant operation. It is outlined how to deal with security related hazards concerning such systems to be...
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A methodology for incorporating human factors in fuzzy-probabilistic modelling and risk analysis of industrial systems
PublicationPraca dotyczy wybranych zagadnień rozmyto-probabilistycznych modelowania złożonych systemów przemysłowych. Do obliczeń związanych z analizą ryzyka stosuje się diagramy wpływu i hierarchiczny proces decyzyjny.
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Aleksandra Romanowska dr inż.
PeopleEmployee in the Highway and Transportation Engineering Department at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Her research interests include: modelling of road traffic, road safety, trip generation, transport behaviour and preferences of academic societies, planning sustainable urban mobility. In 2019 she was granted a PhD degree, under the supervision of Prof. Kazimierz Jamroz...
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A performance-oriented risk-based method for assessment of safety of ships. Modelling uncertainties in hazard and risk analysis
PublicationW artykule podano informacje na temat alternatywnej metody oceny bezpieczeństwa statków, opartej na ocenie zachowania się statku i ocenie ryzyka. Zaproponowano użycie metody do projektowania statków w oparciu o ocenę ryzyka. W takim podejściu do projektowania bezpieczeństwo powinno być celem projektowym. Ocena bezpieczeństwa w proponowanej metodzie powinna być dokonywana na podstawie oceny ryzyka. Do oceny ryzyka zastosowano elementy...
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Jakub Montewka prof. dr hab. inż.
PeopleJakub Montewka is an associate professor at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland and visiting processor at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland and Wuhan University of Technology in China. Jakub is researching in the field of maritime traffic risk and safety. His primary interests lie in the risk assessment of maritime transportation, quantification of safety of maritime navigation, route optimization for ships in ice-covered...
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Joanna Żukowska dr hab. inż.
PeopleJoanna Żukowska (born in Kwidzyn) – road engineering and transport safety expert. She is a researcher in the field of transport. Her main fields of research are: transport policy, active transport and transport safety. She has experience in programming and implementation of traffic safety management systems. She is an author and co-author of many publications on transport safety, provided expertise for the Polish Infrastructure...
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Why are trees still such a major hazard to drivers in Poland?
PublicationRoadside trees are one of Poland's most serious road safety issues. Since 2009 more than 2800 people have been killed as a result of tree collisions; this represents about 15% of all of Poland's accident fatalities between 2009 and 2013. In some of the country's regions striking a tree caused more than 30% of all road accident fatalities. With no proper regulations, guidelines or examples of good practice, roadside environments...
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A decade of Poland`s integrated Road Safety Programme - economic develop-ment vs. road unsafety. W: [CD-ROM]. Conference proceedings. SORIC´02. 2nd Safety on Road Internationaload International Conference. Kingdom of Bah- rain, 21-23 October 2002. Bahrain: CTRS Univ. Bahrain**2002 [8 s. 5 rys. bibliogr. 5 poz. 10 lat Krajowego Programu Bezpieczeństwa Ruchu Drogowego w Polsce - rozwój ekonomiczny a niebezpieczeństwo ruchu.
PublicationReferat zawiera analizę doświadczeń z dziesięciu lat pracy oraz wdrożeń Kra-jowego Programu Bezpieczeństwa Ruchu Drogowego GAMBIT. Przedstawia również analizę przyczyn gwałtownego spadku liczby- śmiertelnych ofiar wypadków dro-gowych w Polsce w roku 2001.
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Demography 2024/2025
e-Learning CoursesDiscover how global demographic changes shape economic and social values across regions. This course explores population trends, demographic structures, and their volatility, providing insights into factors like migration, mortality, and urbanization. Learn to analyze demographic data, create projections, and understand key concepts like the demographic transition. Discuss current challenges, such as China's one-child policy and...
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Experiences and Challenges in Fatality Reduction on Polish Roads
PublicationAccording to the UN, road safety is the key to achieving sustainable development goals, yet the complexity of how road accidents happen makes this a difficult challenge leaving many countries struggling with the problem. For years, Poland has infamously been one of the EU’s top countries for road-accident fatality rates. Despite that, it has made significant progress in the last thirty years with a fatality reduction of more than...
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Studying road restraint systems to develop new guidelines
PublicationThe paper will present a proposed approach to such work along with preliminary results of numerical studies for selected problems using road safety devices such as safety barriers on horizontal curves, the effect of kerbs on bridges or the location of obstacles within the barrier’s working width. The paper will discuss assumptions to a methodology of numerical models, calculations and automated processing of data to help with assessing...
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Assessing unsignalised pedestrian crossings
PublicationThe lack of pedestrian safety on crossings is a complex problem and one that is influenced by a number of factors such as the law, road traffic culture, the road and traffic. This paper will focus on the last two by presenting a method for assessing pedestrian crossings for their geometry and roadside using data from 930 pedestrian crossings in Warsaw. The authors of this paper have attempted to systematise the process of assessment...
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The Effects of Roadside Hazards on Road Accident Severity
PublicationThe risk of becoming involved in an accident emerges when elements of the transport system do not operate properly (man – vehicle – road – roadside). The road, its traffic layout andsafety equipment have a critical impact on road user safety. This gives infrastructural work a priority in road safety strategies and programmes. Run-off-road accidents continue to be one of the biggest problems of road safety with consequences including...
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Zagrożenia uczestników ruchu drogowego na drogach regionalnych
PublicationReferat zawiera analizę bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego na sieci dróg wojewódzkich. Przedstawiono poziom bezpieczeństwa na tle całej sieci drogowej oraz charakterystykę poszczególnych województw. Przedstawiono ranking województw ze względu na liczby wypadków i ich ofiar oraz wybrane wskaźniki. Zaprezentowano, jakie są najczęściej występujące rodzaje wypadków na drogach wojewódzkich oraz przedstawiono lokalizację wypadków pod kątem...
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Speed, alcohol and safety belts as important factors influencing the number voivodship = Prędkość, alkohol i pasy bezpieczeństwa jako istotne czynniki wpływające na liczbę ofiar śmiertelnych wypadków drogowych na obszarze województw
PublicationNiniejszy referat prezentuje wyniki wstępne szerszego programu prac badawczych dotyczących bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego na obszarach województw.
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On the influence of the acceleration recording time on the calculation of impact severity indexes
PublicationThe paper concerns with the analysis of normative requirements pertaining to experimental setup of a crash test and its numerical modelling. An overview of parameters describing the collision of a vehicle with a road restraining system is presented. A short description of a concrete road safety barrier is presented. A brief description of numerical modelling procedures for crash tests is given as well. The parametric influence...
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Ryszard Woźniak dr inż.
PeopleRyszard Woźniak received his M.Sc. (1984) from the Lublin University of Technology specializing in Cars and Tractors. In 2002, at the Gdansk University of Technology he defended his doctoral thesis on: "Tyre/road noise when large longitudinal forces are applied in tyre/road contact patch" and obtained a doctorate degree in technical sciences in the field of construction and operation of machines. Currently he is an adjunct at the...
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Injury Prediction Models for Onshore Road Network Development
PublicationIntegrating different modes of transport (road, rail, air and water) is important for port cities. To accommodate this need, new transport hubs must be built such as airports or sea ports. If ports are to grow, they must be accessible, a feature which is best achieved by building new roads, including fast roads. Poland must develop a network of fast roads that will provide good access to ports. What is equally important is to upgrade...
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European Economic Development 2023
e-Learning CoursesMain aim of the subject is to transfer knowledge on theoretical and empirical aspects of economic development in Europe. Key topics: •concepts of economic development, alternative measures of development •factors of economic growth and development (‘determinants of growth’) •history of economic development in Europe •cross-country and cross-regional comparisons •sources: where to find information and data needed for empirical...
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The application of microscopic models in the study of pedestrian traffic
PublicationCities (especially in Central and Eastern Europe) focus on improving the road network, which aims to improve the efficiency of motor traffic and minimize congestion. Most of existing tools for analysing the effectiveness of urban transport networks do not assume to analyse the impact of walking and cycling on efficiency of transport systems. It is therefore necessary to develop solutions...
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Innovative Research Into Road Restraint Systems
PublicationKey to understanding the needs and building road infrastructure management tools to prevent and mitigate run-off-road accidents is to identify hazards and their sources which are a result of wrong design, construction, installation and maintenance of road restraint systems [1]. Building such tools requires advanced studies with field tests, simulations and models to demonstrate the effects of selected parameters on road user safety...
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Joanna Rymaszewska prof. dr hab. n. med.
PeopleCV Joanna Rymaszewska Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland +48 601 98 26 24, joanna.rymaszewska@pwr.edu.pl orcid.org/0000-0001-8985-3592 2023 → Professor of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland 2011 → 2023 Professor of Wroclaw Medical University (WMU), PL 2016 → 2022 Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University 2016 → 2022 Head of the Clinic of Psychiatry,...
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Pedestrian protection, speed enforcement and road network structure the key action for implementing Poland's Vision Zero
PublicationSince 1991 Poland's road safety has been systematically improving with a 60% reduction in road deaths. Despite the progress Poland continues to be one of the European Union' worst performing countries. The country's main road safety problems remain unchanged: dangerous behaviour of road users, underdeveloped system of road safety management and low quality of road infrastructure. This is why subsequent road safety programmes (implemented...
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Studying the Behaviour of Pedestrians and Drivers Within Pedestrian Crossings
PublicationEvery third road accident in Poland involves a pedestrian as a participant or, most of the time, a casualty. Pedestrian accidents are usually the result of complex situations and the outcome of a number of factors related to driver and pedestrian behaviour and road infrastructure. Safety depends largely on how well the traffic condition is perceived and on visibility in traffic. The re-lations between pedestrians and motorists...
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Risks to Older People in Road Traffic
Publicationhe article looks at road traffic risks and main trends from the perspective of older road users (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians). With a longer time to react, poor eyesight and hearing, impaired mobility, ill health and medication, older road users are put at risk. A comprehensive and pro-active strategy is needed to deal with these risk factors and meet the safety and mobility needs...
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Determinants and effects of Poland’s road accidents in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development – poviat level analysis for the years 2010-2019
PublicationThe objective of the research was to assess how selected factors influence road safety in Poland’s poviats. To that end, an analysis was conducted of road accident determinants and effects in the poviats in the years 2010-2019. The time horizon fits in with Goal 3.6. of Agenda 2030, which is to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020. The article pres-ents the analysis results for the...
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Vision Zero in Poland
PublicationPoland’s experience of road safety work is relatively short. In the early 1990s road deaths soared to a staggering 8000 a year. A diagnosis found that Poland’s lack of systemic road safety action was to blame for those figures. In response, the state set up road safety bodies and commissioned road safety programs. In 2005, Poland followed the example of Sweden and adopted Vision Zero as a far-reaching concept of changes in road...
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Analysis of road accident causes in the voivodships in the years 2014-2021 in the aspect of socio-economic costs – towards the implementation of sustainable development
PublicationThe article addresses the topic of road safety. The objective of the research was to assess road accidents caused by voivodships. The analysis took account of the socio-economic differences in the voivodships, which deter-mine the unit costs of fatalities and injuries. A descriptive analysis is given to show the dynamics of changes in the years 2014-2021 in the voivodships and how different factors influenced change. The article...
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PERS - QUIET ROAD SURFACE FOR URBAN AREAS
PublicationTraffic noise is one of the most important environmental problems in densely populated urban areas. At low speeds the tyre/road interaction dominates all other sources. It is anticipated that when electric and hybrid vehicles gain dominance in city traffic, the importance of tyre/road noise will still increase as electric engines are much less noisy than combustion engines. On the other hand, electric and hybrid urban vehicles...
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Zdzisław Kowalczuk prof. dr hab. inż.
PeopleZdzislaw Kowalczuk received his M.Sc. degree in 1978 and Ph.D. degree in 1986, both in Automatic Control from Technical University of Gdańsk (TUG), Gdańsk, Poland. In 1993 he received his D.Sc. degree (Dr Habilitus) in Automatic Control from Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland, and the title of Professor from the President of Poland in 2003. Since 1978 he has been with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics...
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LS-DYNA simulations of the impacts of a 38-ton Heavy Goods Vehicle into a road cable barrier
PublicationNowadays, more and more attention is being paid to safety on roads and motorways. It is due to the continuous development of road and motorway network and a significant increase of the number of vehicles on roads. To meet the expectations of improving road safety in Poland, the Road Innovations Development (RID) research programme was implemented in 2016. The aim of the RID 3A - Road Safety Equipment (RoSE) project is a comprehensive...
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Human awareness versus Autonomous Vehicles view: comparison of reaction times during emergencies
PublicationHuman safety is one of the most critical factors when a new technology is introduced to the everyday use. It was no different in the case of Autonomous Vehicles (AV), designed to replace generally available Conventional Vehicles (CV) in the future. AV rules, from the start, focus on guaranteeing safety for passengers and other road users, and these assumptions usually work during normal traffic conditions. However, there is still...
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Forecasting Poland`s road deaths. W: [CD-ROM]. Zbornik referatov. V. Medna- rodna Konferenca Globalna Varnost. V. International Conference Global Safe- ty. Portoroz, od 6. do 9 oktobra 2002, Slovenija. [B.m.]: ZVD, Slovene Road Safety Council**2002 [7 s. 5 rys. bibliogr. 8 poz.] Prognozowanie liczby zabitych w ruchu drogowym w Polsce.
PublicationW referacie przedstawiono sytuację w zakresie bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowegow Polsce oraz metodykę tworzenia długoterminowych prognoz rozwoju ryzyka w ruchu drogowym na przykładzie prognozy dla potrzeb Krajowego Programu Bez-pieczeństwa Ruchu drogowego GAMBIT 2000.