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Smart traffic calming measures for smart cities : a pre-study
, 2018 Trafiklugnande åtgärder, såsom vägbulor och förhöjda övergångsställen, används för att minska hastigheten, hindra farliga omkörningar och generellt bidra till en säkrare trafiksituation. Dock kan de också bidra till att insatstiderna för räddningsfordon (t.ex. ambulanser eller räddningstjänstens släckbilar) förlängs.
Al Haji, Ghazwan +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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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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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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Quantifying the Effects of Traffic Calming on Emissions Using On-road Measurements [PDF]
SAE Technical Paper Series, 2005 <div class="htmlview paragraph">The objective of this work was to determine the effect of one form of traffic calming on emissions. Traffic calming is aimed at reducing average vehicle speeds, especially in residential neighborhoods, often using physical road obstructions such as speed bumps, but it also results in a higher number of acceleration/
Daham, B. +5 more
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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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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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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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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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