External Costs of Traffic Accidents on Slovenian Roads

Abstract

Traffic safety can be viewed from different aspects. In this paper we assess traffic safety in Slovenia from the costal point of view. Slovenia is a small country on a crossing of important European routes, which provides good developmental possibilities, but at the same time poses threat to traffic safety as the inland infrastructure does not seem to be ready to accommodate the increasingly high traffic flows. We have created a time series for several traffic safety and traffic workload indicators and analysed those with simple descriptive statistics. Then we have provided an assessment of the costs arising from road accidents. We found out, that despite the large improvement in traffic safety records it seems that improvement trends could come to an end soon due to heterogenization and growth of traffic flows as well as of deterioration of national and municipal roads.