Transport system as an element of sustainable economic growth in the tourist region

Table 7 Traffic of Vehicles and Passengers, Traffic Accidents and Their
Consequences on the Route Rijeka-Dubrovnik

Source: Statistics JP”Jadrolinija”, Sektor plana i analize, Pravna sluzba, Rijeka,1997.

Note: Passenger traffic per year has been predicted according to empirical parameters
of average no. of passengers in road vehicles.

Figures in both tables indicate that road transport is an extremely insecure transport
mode. On Rijeka-Zagreb railway, in all the accidents, road vehicles were present too. In
future, when road-railway crossings in the same level will be substituted by crossings on
different level, railway transport on the mentioned route could be considered almost
absolutely safe.

Similar conclusion derives from figures illustrating the safety level on Rijeka-
Dubrovnik route. Liner maritime transport with only one accident is really a very safe
transport mode.⁶

A comparison of figures on the roads Rijeka-Zagreb and Rijeka-Dubrovnik clearly
points out how insecure the second relation is. It is well known under the name Adriatic
tourists road and is for many seashore destinations the only way to reach them.

If reassuming ecology and safety parameters on the main Croatian corridors a
conclusion arises that they cannot be considered satisfying. This negative characteristic is not

⁶ In the period 1945-2000 on all the lines organised and performed by Croatian shipping operators the number of
accidents is symbolic, no persons were killed and few were injured.

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