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Analysis and Evaluation of Trapezoidal Speed Humps and Their Impact on the Driver
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2018 Operating speed is one of the leading safety risk factors, which increases accident risk and influences accident severity. Speeding is the leading cause of accidents and the most common road traffic offense.
Vilma Jasiūnienė +4 more
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Point scoring system to rank traffic calming projects
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2016 The installation of calming measures on a road network is systematically planned way in general to reduce driving speeds, but also reduces the volume of through traffic on local and residential streets.
Farzana Rahman, Hisashi Kubota
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Effects of traffic calming measures in different urban areas
Transportation Research Procedia, 2018 XIII Conference on Transpot Engineering, CIT2018 Despite of the reduction of deaths and serious injuries in roads in Spain during the last years, this reduction has not been so important in urban areas. Consequently, Traffic calming measures (TCM) have been installed in urban areas to improve mainly safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
Gonzalo Orden, Hernán +3 more
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Energies, 2023 Traffic-calming measures (TCMs) are non-invasive devices designed to improve road mobility and urban areas on a human scale. Despite their potential, they have been in use for a long time and now have to deal with the latest technological innovations in ...
Maria Luisa Tumminello +3 more
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Promet (Zagreb), 2020 Traffic calming is the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behaviour and improve conditions for non-motorized street users.
Tomas Astrauskas +2 more
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The Policies of Implementing Traffic Calming in the Las Vegas Valley
, 2002 This paper illustrates how policies that relate to traffic calming devices are implemented in the Las Vegas Valley. Traffic calming is the attempt to achieve calm, safe, environmentally improved conditions on streets, and the lowering of speeds.
Guerra, David A.
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Assessing of traffic calming measures
, 2023 Norrköpings kommun står inför många utmaningar gällande den rådande tillväxtsituationen. Området Västra staden, som innefattar stadsdelarna Såpkullen, Ektorp och Kneippen, ska utökas med cirka 2000 nya bostäder. Västra staden området omfattar bland annat vägen Skarphagsleden, som idag är en genomfartsled men som med hjälp av projektet ...
Erixon, Elsa, Erlandsson, Fanny
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Pedestrian injuries sustained in negotiating traffic calming measures [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2000 Editor,— We have recently seen two patients who were injured while walking across raised traffic calming features (sleeping policemen). The first patient, a 56 year old woman could not walk on the pavement as it was blocked by cars. In negotiating the traffic restraint she failed to clear the restraint and caught her foot, stumbling forwards cutting ...
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Are speed enforcement cameras more effective than other speed management measures? The impact of speed management schemes on 30mph roads. [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the impact of various types of speed management schemes on both traffic speeds and accidents. The study controls for general trends in accidents, regression-to-mean effects and migration, separately ...
Hirst, W.M., Maher, M., Mountain, L.
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Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2016 Traffic accident frequency has been decreasing in Japan in recent years. Nevertheless, many accidents still occur on residential roads. Area-wide traffic calming measures including Zone 30, which discourages traffic by setting a speed limit of 30 km/h in
Seiji Hashimoto +5 more
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