Getting an Insight into the Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Road Safety

Simulating the Effects of Type and Spacing of Traffic Calming Measures on Urban Road Capacity

One of the major reasons for accidents is speed. Top of Form Inappropriate speed has been identified as the most important causal factor for serious traffic accidents. Traffic calming measures (TCMs) are engineering measures that are widely implemented to improve road safety by considerably reducing vehicle speed. TCMs have been widely used in urban areas to reduce vehicle flow rat...

Of Traffic Calming Devices on Crosstown Road Safety

Modelling and assessing the effects of road traffic safety measures

The nature and the effects of improving road traffic safety by infrastructure redesign and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are different. This makes comparison of such measures difficult, especially because relevant effect data for ADAS are not yet available. To address this issue, a conceptual model is presented for the effects of road traffic safety measures, based on a breakdown in...

Modelling the effects of road traffic safety measures.

A model is presented for assessing the effects of traffic safety measures, based on a breakdown of the process in underlying components of traffic safety (risk and consequence), and five (speed and conflict related) variables that influence these components, and are influenced by traffic safety measures. The relationships between measures, variables and components are modelled as coefficients. ...

EFFECTS OF ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY MEASURES: A PRESENTATION OF THE TRAFFIC SAFETY HANDBOOK by

The third edition of the Norwegian Traffic Safety Handbook, was issued in 1997 (Elvik, Borger Mysen, Vaa 1997). The book gives a presentation of 124 road safety measures and covers measures in the following areas: 1. General purpose policy instruments (14 measures in total) 2. Road design and road furniture (20 measures) 3. Road maintenance (9 measures) 4. Traffic regulation (21 measures) 5. Ve...