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An evaluation framework for traffic calming measures in residential areas

Transportation Research, Part D: Transport and Environment, 2013
The paper evaluates the effectiveness of various traffic calming measures from the perspectives of traffic performance and safety, and environmental and public health impacts. The proposed framework was applied to four calming measures – two types of speed humps, speed tables, and chicanes – to demonstrate its usefulness and applicability.
Gunwoo Lee, Shinhye Joo, Cheol Oh
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Low-Cost Traffic Calming Measures: Modular Traffic Calming Strategy Study in Chapel Hill, NC

open access: yes
This paper examines the importance of traffic calming interventions in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to achieve the town's Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries. It highlights NC Highway-86 (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) as a high-priority corridor for safety improvements, necessitating collaboration with the NCDOT.
Baltutis, Ian
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Driving cycles for measuring passenger car emissions on roads with traffic calming measures

Science of the Total Environment, 1999
Although local authorities in the UK need to be aware of any air quality impacts resulting from their traffic calming operations, there is little information relating to the effects of different traffic calming measures. The effects on air quality on this scale are complex, and so TRL is providing guidance by developing performance indices for ...
, Boutler, , Latham, , Ainge
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