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Pedestrian traffic safety and outdoor active play among 10–13 year olds living in a mid-sized city

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2018
This cross-sectional study examined the independent and interactive associations between objective and perceived measures of neighborhood pedestrian traffic safety and outdoor active play.
Andrew Nguyen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traffic Calming Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Koncept “smirivanja prometa“ temelji se na zahtjevu povećanja sigurnosti prometa, a postiţe se smanjivanjem brzine kretanja vozila u stambenim zonama i u blizini škola i djeĉjih vrtića te poboljšanju preglednosti.
Vrban, Antonija
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Pedestrian injuries sustained in negotiating traffic calming measures [PDF]

open access: yesEmergency 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

“Thinking Out Loud” and “Pivoting on the Fly”—An Empirical Review and Critical Incident Study of How Physicians Engage in Incidental Learning Amidst Complexity

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores incidental learning among physicians navigating uncertainty during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a constructivist research design, we conducted a literature review of 13 empirical studies on incidental learning in complexity and analyzed critical incident interviews with 12 emergency medicine and intensive care physicians ...
Henriette Lundgren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Simulator Study on the Driving Impacts of Four Speed-Calming Measures at Unsignalized Intersections

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Intersections, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of 2020 Low Traffic Neighbourhoods on Fire Service Emergency Response Times, in London, UK

open access: yesFindings, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the efficiency of traffic lights turning red in case of exceeding speed limit

open access: yesIngeniería 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
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the effects of traffic infrastructure reconstruction and introduction of a pedestrian island as a traffic calming measure using traffic microsimulations

open access: yesInternational Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure, 2022
The reduction in the traffic death rate in the EU has stagnated in recent years, and the goal of halving the number of fatalities in traffic from 2010 to 2020 has not been met yet. The long-term goal of achieving "Vision 0" requires a multidisciplinary approach and shared responsibility between transport infrastructure that "forgives mistakes", traffic
Ištoka Otković, Irena   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Impact of Introducing a Low Traffic Neighbourhood on Fire Service Emergency Response Times, in Waltham Forest London

open access: yesFindings, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Traffic Calming Measures and Their Slowing Effect on the Pedestrian Refuge Approach Sections

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
The ever-increasing use of motor vehicles causes a number of traffic safety and community issues, which are particularly severe in cities, accompanied by a scarcity of parking spaces and challenges encountered in road layout alteration projects. The commonly applied solutions include the designation of through streets, the implementation of on-street ...
Stanisław Majer, Alicja Sołowczuk
openaire   +1 more source

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