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Benefits of area-wide traffic calming measures: outcomes still to assess [PDF]
WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2008 The role of traffic calming schemes in urban network management is mainly to minimize the undesirable effect of traffic in residential areas; in this context accident reduction can be a realistic objective. Several studies, indeed, inform us that traffic calming is a major part of the treatments available to reduce road accidents in urban areas ...
A. GRANÀ, T. GIUFFRÈ, GUERRIERI M
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin +6 more
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Proactive safety assessment of urban through-roads based on GPS data
Archives of TransportRoad safety is a worldwide issue, while urban roads account for a high share of serious road injuries, especially involving vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians or cyclists.
Jiri Ambros +4 more
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Findings, 2020 There is sometimes concern that low traffic neighbourhoods slow emergency vehicles. We test this using London Fire Brigade data (2012-2020) in Waltham Forest, where from 2015 low traffic neighbourhoods have been implemented.
Anna Goodman +2 more
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Findings, 2021 Between March and September 2020, 72 ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) were implemented in London. We examined the impact on fire brigade emergency response times in October 2020-February 2021 (‘post’), as compared to the same months in the previous ...
Anna Goodman +3 more
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Analysis of the efficiency of traffic lights turning red in case of exceeding speed limit
Ingeniería e Investigación, 2021 Due to the presence of various traffic calming measures (TCM) and traffic lights in urban areas, the speed of vehicles is maintained low. Nevertheless, a problem arises in the frontier between urban and non-urban areas because drivers must adapt their ...
Heriberto Pérez-Acebo +3 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Traffic Calming Along Urban Roads Case Study: Central Business District, Johor Bahru [PDF]
, 2008 Many rapidly developing cities are plagued with urban problems related to high level of motorization on the road. Contemporary measures adopted to address the issues of high motorization level are usually associated with engineering based capital ...
Wong, Kam Lee
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Applied SciencesIntersections, especially those without traffic signals, are prone to frequent traffic accidents and disorder. The regulation of vehicle speed is an effective measure that can be taken in order to mitigate accidents and alleviate disorder at unsignalized
Yaqin Qin, Yang Wu, Miao Guo
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