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Lina Bertulienė, Lina Juknevičiūtė-Žilinskienė
Roadside Infrastructure and Rest Areas Concepts in Lithuania
| Conference Information: |
9th International Conference on Environmental
Engineering, MAY 22-24, 2014 Vilnius, LITHUANIA |
| Source: |
ICEE-2014 - International Conference on Environmental
Engineering |
| Book Series: |
International Conference on Environmental Engineering
(ICEE) Selected papers |
| ISSN: |
ISSN 2029-7092 online |
| ISBN: |
978-609-457-640-9 / 978-609-457-690-4 CD |
| Year: |
2014 |
| Publisher: |
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press Technika |
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Abstract
Safety rest areas (RAs) provide travellers and drivers safe and convenient facilities to rest themselves before continuing with their
journey. The establishment of rest areas on major roads may help to decrease number of accidents caused by drivers’ fatigue, to ensure
parking place for short breaks and long-term stop of cargo vehicles, to reduce the excess travel time and, of course, to improve the overall
travel comfort. Well designed and customers friendly rest areas with improved secure parking opportunities is a necessity in all countries.
This article analyzes types of roadside rest areas, rest area arrangement and recreation facilities infrastructure on Lithuanian roads. These
basic rest area services must be open and available to all users. The recommended rest areas are socioeconomically feasible and
environmentally friendly and safe.
Keywords: infrsastructure; rest area; travel comfort; parking; recreation facilities.
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