Air pollution in cities is causing health problems, particularly the children, the elderly and persons with chronicle illness are affected. Only recently in order to reduce the harmful impact of human population on the environment, several conferences (kyoto, copenhagen, and doha) have been organized at the global level with the main goal to discus...

By Aida Matoc

Traditional ways of improving road safety, based on accident and its consequences. Such a method is not popular in the world, because it involves an analysis of traffic accidents on the basis of the number of casualties in traffic. To this way of improving traffic safety lifted to a higher level, it is necessary to pay special attention to the exis...

By Milan Tešić

The topic of this paper is to define identity, image building and branding of a tourist-entrepreneurial organization. The objective of this paper is to be a specific guideline in the selection of strategy and conception not only of tourism but also the overall economic and  social development on a sustainable basis. An interest-based cluster o...

By Salih Bučuk, Marinko Brkić

Service sector has a great impact on the domestic economy as on the economy in general. Effective service sector is becoming a backbone of every development process in the economy. Countries with liberal service sector have faster and stronger economic growth than countries with closed and limited service sector. In theory most common service chara...

By Angela Kuzmanova, Ante Aralica

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the ICT sector (information and communication technologies) and the application of the new technologies in the Economy. The paper points out the importance of modern economic theory “new growth theory" provides to the application of new information and communication technologies. The imp...

By Ivica Merdžan

This paper will present the research results on the subject of stimulative shopping atmosphere in Croatian drugstores for reasons of gaining competitive advantage. The study was conducted on a sample of 160 respondents in twenty cities in the Republic of Croatia. The aim of this study is to show the connection between consumer attitudes and the dec...

By Helena Šlogar, Zvonimir Kalić

On the roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina traffic accidents are almost a daily occurrence. After a traffic accident, even if there is the option of data exchange by the participants, almost always performs site inspection traffic police. After the inspection object is processed in the competent court, where in the course of the trial determines respon...

By Momčilo Sladoje, Alisa Salkić

Railway crossings (RC) are places where a roadways crossover a railway lines, more exactly it is a crossing place of a roadway and the upper edge of a rails that are located in the same plane. Due to the great speed distinction of road and rail vehicles and their masses and braking distances, RC are places of frequent physical contact and collision...

By Igor Marković

Modelling of port processes like cargo handling significantly contributes to the advance of port work organisation, work safety, increase of port efficiency, speed of cargo and merchandise flow and enhancement of port potentials. In this paper such model is put to test, and the results are compared with the actual business results of an existent co...

By Mirko Bilić, Zlatimir Bićanić, Marijan Zunić

Electronic toll collection on highways, bridges, and tunnels significantly reduces collection time which results in many positive effects. It reduces queuing time for users of traffic infrastructures. It also reduces fees compared to payment in cash or by cards. As this type of payment allows concessionaries lower operating costs they can afford to...

By Mihael Plećaš, Nebojša Stanić, Miljenko Balaško