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The conference “Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in the Baltic Sea Region”, held in Vilnius on 5-6 December 2018, acknowledged the importance of road safety matter and provided examples, suggestions and the possible outcome of what we can expect, if changes will not take place soon. The conference was arranged by Lithuanian-Swedish Academy and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) together with partners.
Key-note speaker Matts-Åke Belin Senior Advisor, Swedish Transport Administration
Key-note speaker Matts-Åke Belin Senior Advisor, Swedish Transport Administration
© Aleksas Jaunius

The need to transform things as they were strongly evolved a few years ago. Initially, it inspired a project "Vision Zero in Lithuania", which stemmed from the EU resolution passed on March 16th 2016, with a mission to reduce the number of road deaths in the 28 EU member countries within upcoming years. Earlier this year, one of the conference's

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