Traffic Calming as a Comprehensive Solution Improving Traffic Road Safety

Of Traffic Calming Devices on Crosstown Road Safety

Traffic Supervision and Road Safety

Traffic supervision usually means the traffic work of police. Most people agree that traffic supervision is very important in preventing traffic accidents. Police activity, as it relates to highway safety, is a primary consideration in this paper. Perhaps traffic supervision may best be described as the elastic or flexible element in traffic safety programs— the work that fills in the gaps and ...

Urban Traffic Calming and Road Safety: Effects and Implications for Practice

This summary is the first in a series of five short documents based on a literature review published in 2011. In what follows, we first present the mechanisms of action underlying traffic-calming strategies, as these mechanisms help to explain and predict the effects of calming interventions on the number and severity of collisions. Next, we summarize the results of studies having evaluated two...

Traffic calming for the prevention of road traffic injuries: systematic review and meta-analysis.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether area-wide traffic calming schemes can reduce road crash related deaths and injuries. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Injuries Group Specialised Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, EMBASE, Sociological Abstracts Science (and social science) citation index, National Technical Information service, Psyc...

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...