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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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Modeling the Effect of Traffic Calming on Local Animal Population Persistence [PDF]
, 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.
Jaarsma, C.F., Langevelde, F., van
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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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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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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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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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Speed management as a measure to improve road safety on Polish regional roads [PDF]
Archives of Transport, 2017 The article presents the issue of the implementation of speed management measures on regional roads, whose character requires the use of different solutions than those on national roads.
Stanisław Gaca, Sylwia Pogodzińska
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