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Cardiac surgical theatre traffic: time for traffic calming measures? [PDF]
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 2010 Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a significant cause of postoperative complications. The risk of death from a medical error in a UK hospital remains one in 300. Increased theatre traffic has been identified as a modifiable determinant of SSI and surgical error. This cross-sectional study for the first time describes the pattern of theatre traffic
Richard S, Young, David J, O'Regan
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Evaluation of safety, traffic and economic indicators of traffic calming measures using software simulation (case study: Qom city) [PDF]
مجله مدل سازی در مهندسی, 2023 The increasing growth of vehicles and the decrease in road safety in developing countries have led to an increase in urban accident statistics. Urban management policymakers have aimed to implement effective solutions to improve the level of safety ...
sajad Abdi, Mohamad Hosein Dehnad
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Buildings, 2021 The on-going growth in the use of motor vehicles leads to a number of traffic safety problems. Therefore, various traffic calming measures are applied to increase traffic safety in built-up areas. Lane narrowing is one of the techniques used to influence
Alicja Barbara Sołowczuk +1 more
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Traffic Calming Measures and their Effect on the Variation of Speed
Transportation Research Procedia, 2016 XII Conference on Transport Engineering, CIT 2016, 7-9 june 2016, Valencia, Spain In recent years the number of deaths and serious injuries is decreasing in Spain, but, although the reduction outside the cities has been very strong, inside the urban areas, it has been smaller.
Gonzalo Orden, Hernán +3 more
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Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Pedestrian and Motorist Behavior [PDF]
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2000 By slowing down vehicle traffic, shortening crossing distances, and enhancing motorist and pedestrian visibility, traffic calming treatments may benefit pedestrians who are crossing the street. The effects of selected traffic calming treatments on pedestrian and motorist behavior were evaluated at both intersection and midblock locations.
Herman F. Huang, Michael J. Cynecki
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Conflits autour de la « pacification » du trafic automobile
L'Espace Politique, 2016 In France while traffic calming measures were concentrated in residential neighbourhoods or in commercial streets until the end of the 2000s, these measures spread to the main roads receiving major transit traffic. To what extent do the conflicts created
Sylvanie Godillon
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Influence of traffic calming measures on drivers behaviour [PDF]
The 9th International Conference "Environmental Engineering 2014", 2014 Road users’ safety comes out from imperfections of a human-vehicle-road system. Previous research and analyses have proved that the key factor in this system in scope of traffic safety is human factor however it is being emphasized that more attention should be given to road geometry and its surroundings.
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Developing a Web-Based Advisory Expert System for Implementing Traffic Calming Strategies
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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Impact of traffic calming on acoustic climate in street surrounding
Budownictwo i Architektura, 2014 The paper presents the methods to improve safety and quality of life of people living in the neighborhood of roads and the situation of road users by means of traffic calming.
Janusz Bohatkiewicz +4 more
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Traffic calming measures
AIJR Proceedings, 2021 The main objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of various traffic calming measures on achieving their predetermined objectives. The first stage focused on the influence of measures like Speed table, Rumble strips, Road studs and Lane narrowing implemented in isolation under the same conditions, on the speed of unimpeded vehicles ...
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