Effect of Traffic Calming in a Downtown District of Szczecin, Poland
Energies, 2021 The increasing use of road vehicles has caused a number of transport and environmental issues throughout the world. To cope with them, traffic calming schemes are being increasingly implemented in built-up areas.
Alicja Sołowczuk
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Energies, 2021 Traffic calming is introduced to minimise the negative results of motor vehicle use, for example, low safety level or quality of life, high noise and pollution.
Jan Paszkowski +3 more
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Developing a Web-Based Advisory Expert System for Implementing Traffic Calming Strategies [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Lack of traffic safety has become a serious issue in residential areas. In this paper, a web-based advisory expert system for the purpose of applying traffic calming strategies on residential streets is described because there currently lacks a ...
Amir Falamarzi +2 more
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Living in a Silver Zone: Residents’ perceptions of area-wide traffic calming measures in Singapore
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022 Traffic calming has been introduced in many cities in a bid to create more age-friendly and sustainable communities. This study uses Q methodology to understand the perspectives and experiences of residents after almost a decade since the first ...
Samuel Chng +3 more
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of traffic calming measures on vehicle speeds and pedestrian injury severity in Ghana. [PDF]
Traffic Inj Prev, 2019 Objectives: Each year, pedestrian injuries constitute over 40% of all road casualty deaths and up to 60% of all urban road casualty deaths in Ghana. This is as a result of the overwhelming dependence on walking as a mode of transport in an environment ...
Damsere-Derry J +5 more
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Modeling the Effect of Traffic Calming on Local Animal Population Persistence [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2009 A steady growth in traffic volumes in industrialized countries with dense human populations is expected, especially on minor roads. As a consequence, the fragmentation of wildlife populations will increase dramatically.
Frank van Langevelde +1 more
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Assessing the impacts of traffic calming at network level: A multimodal agent-based simulation
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)The reduction of speed limits in urban roads through traffic calming schemes intends to ensure safer traffic conditions among road users by reducing the probability related to the occurrence of severe accident.
Eftychia Zargiannaki +4 more
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Traffic flow parameters development modelling at traffic calming measures located on arterial roads
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021 Controlling the speed of vehicles is essential in some parts of the roadway. One way of controlling speed is to use static control devices i.e. traffic calming measures, which reduce the speeds of vehicles and thereby increase safety, while produce ...
Ayman A. Abdulmawjoud +2 more
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Traffic-Calming Measures and Road Traffic Collisions and Injuries: A Spatiotemporal Analysis
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023 Abstract Traffic-calming measures (TCMs) are physical modifications of the road network aimed at making the roads safer. Although researchers have reported reductions in numbers of road crashes and injuries tied to the presence of TCMs, such studies have been criticized for their pre-/post- designs.
Batomen, Brice +9 more
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Impact of vertical traffic calming devices on environmental noise
Građevinar, 2021 Increasing numbers of people living in urban areas are being exposed to harmful action of environmental noise, which severely affects their health and quality of life.
Tamara Džambas +2 more
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