Identification of problem areas of traffic flow management and solutions in Vilnius

Abstract

Nowadays, transportation is a globally powerful and significant and beneficial process for the whole world. Transport plays an important role in to-day’s economy and society and has a large impact on growth and employment in Lithuania. With logistics industry the transport sector accounted for about 15% of GDP in 2019. At the beginning of 2021 this industry has been employing around 139 thousand persons or 15% of the total employment. 8.479 enterprises were active in the industry at the beginning of 2021 and 99% of them were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with 1‒249 persons employed [1]. The article presents the analysis of the scientific literature on traffic flow management, identifies problem areas, analyzes the traffic flow management in Vilnius city, presents the research, which identifies the problem areas of traffic flow management and suggests possible solutions.