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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 Vil-nius city, presents the research, which identifies the problem areas of traffic flow management and suggests possible solutions.
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Jarašūnienė, A., Žemaitytė, G. (2023). Identification of Problem Areas of Traffic Flow Management and Solutions in Vilnius. In: Prentkovskis, O., Yatskiv (Jackiva), I., Skačkauskas, P., Maruschak, P., Karpenko, M. (eds) TRANSBALTICA XIII: Transportation Science and Technology. TRANSBALTICA 2022. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25863-3_47
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