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Randall, Todd A., Cameron J. Churchill, and Brian W. Baetz. "Geographic information system (GIS) based decision support for neighbourhood traffic calming." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 32, no. 1 (2005): 86–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l04-085.

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In suburban areas, traffic issues are generally related to elevated speeds and volumes and a perceived reduction in personal safety. In response, traffic engineers have designed and implemented a variety of traffic calming measures for local and collector streets, with significant speed reductions and other benefits. Less common are measures to address traffic issues on arterials which (if implemented) might reduce speeds, thereby encouraging more sustainable transportation modes and lessening automobile dependence. A geographic information system (GIS) based tool has been developed to provide

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Ess, Juri, and Dago Antov. "Unified methodology for estimating efficiency of traffic calming measures – example of Estonia." Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering 11, no. 4 (2016): 259–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bjrbe.2016.30.

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Traffic calming is an integral part of contemporary traffic planning and traffic management being used for fulfilling different tasks such as reducing vehicle speed and traffic volume, and in final terms reducing number of accidents. Traffic calming measures are notstandardized internationally and have significant differences in geometric shape and layout in different countries, as well as in Estonia. At the same time impacts of different calming measures are unstudied well, and often the surveys are incomparable to each other. There are also no certain recommendation which measures should be

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Jiang, Yu Bo, Liang Hua Jiang, and Ya Qin Qin. "Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Vehicle Speed Control and Road Safety." Applied Mechanics and Materials 721 (December 2014): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.721.39.

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This thesis introduced the origin and function of traffic calming measures in solving road safety problem and reducing vehicle speed to make the environment more secure, also introduced several different types of basic traffic calming measures. Facts showed that using traffic measures can improve the safety of traffic environment, reduce vehicle speed and decrease accidents and pollutions. Therefore, traffic calming measures should be highly valued by governments and policy makers in constructing a city with harmony and prosperity.

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Sołowczuk, Alicja. "Effect of Traffic Calming in a Downtown District of Szczecin, Poland." Energies 14, no. 18 (2021): 5838. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14185838.

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The increasing use of road vehicles has caused a number of transport and environmental issues throughout the world. To cope with them, traffic calming schemes are being increasingly implemented in built-up areas. An example of such schemes are Tempo-30 zones. The traffic calming measures applied as part of this scheme must be carefully planned in terms of location and design details in order to obtain the desired reduction in speed, traffic volume and exhaust emissions and, last but foremost, to increase the safety and facilitate the movement of vulnerable road users. The coexistence and combi

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Young, Richard S., and David J. O'Regan. "Cardiac surgical theatre traffic: time for traffic calming measures?" Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 10, no. 4 (2010): 526–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1510/icvts.2009.227116.

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Ewing, Reid, Li Chen, and Cynthia Chen. "Quasi-Experimental Study of Traffic Calming Measures in New York City." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2364, no. 1 (2013): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2364-04.

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This paper provides a large-scale, rigorous evaluation of traffic calming projects in one U.S. city. The study area is New York City, which treated 391 streets with speed tables between 1996 and 2003. On the basis of crash frequencies for 5 years before treatment and 5 years after for treated streets and well-matched comparison streets, no evidence emerged that New York City's ambitious traffic calming program has led to a reduction in total crashes, pedestrian crashes, or injury crashes. This is in contrast to earlier, less carefully controlled evaluations that have reported significant reduc

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Huang, Herman F., and Michael J. Cynecki. "Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Pedestrian and Motorist Behavior." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1705, no. 1 (2000): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1705-05.

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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. Before and after data were collected in Cambridge, Massachusetts (bulbouts and raised intersection), Corvallis, Oregon (pedestrian refuge island), Seattle, Washington (bulbouts), and Sacramento, California (refuge islands). The key findings include that none

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Rajesh, K. "Pedestrian injuries sustained in negotiating traffic calming measures." Emergency Medicine Journal 17, no. 3 (2000): 233—a—234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.17.3.233-a.

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Falamarzi, Amir, Muhamad Nazri Borhan, and Riza Atiq O. K. Rahmat. "Developing a Web-Based Advisory Expert System for Implementing Traffic Calming Strategies." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/757981.

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Lack of traffic safety has become a serious issue in residential areas. In this paper, a web-based advisory expert system for the purpose of applying traffic calming strategies on residential streets is described because there currently lacks a structured framework for the implementation of such strategies. Developing an expert system can assist and advise engineers for dealing with traffic safety problems. This expert system is developed to fill the gap between the traffic safety experts and people who seek to employ traffic calming strategies including decision makers, engineers, and student

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Gonzalo-Orden, Hernán, Heriberto Pérez-Acebo, Alaitz Linares Unamunzaga, and Marta Rojo Arce. "Effects of traffic calming measures in different urban areas." Transportation Research Procedia 33 (2018): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2018.10.079.

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Rossi, Riccardo, Massimiliano Gastaldi, Gregorio Gecchele, Francesco Biondi, and Claudio Mulatti. "Traffic-Calming Measures Affecting Perceived Speed in Approaching Bends." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2434, no. 1 (2014): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2434-05.

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Bohatkiewicz, Janusz, Wioleta Czarnecka, Krzysztof Jamrozik, Sebastian Biernacki, and Maciej Hałucha. "Impact of traffic calming on acoustic climate in street surrounding." Budownictwo i Architektura 13, no. 1 (2014): 235–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/bud-arch.1943.

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The paper presents the methods to improve safety and quality of life of people living in the neighborhood of roads and the situation of road users by means of traffic calming. The focus is kept on positive impact of traffic calming measures on acoustic climate in the surrounding of roads. The paper also contains the characteristics of selected impacts of road traffic on the environment together with a general outline of traffic calming as an instrument to mitigate the negative influence. Various possibilities to frame the acoustic climate and reduce transport-related inconvenience by means of

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Vaitkus, Audrius, Donatas Čygas, Vilma Jasiūnienė, et al. "Traffic Calming Measures: An Evaluation of the Effect on Driving Speed." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 29, no. 3 (2017): 275–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v29i3.2265.

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Road accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly among young people. Excessive speed is one of the main risk factors in road traffic safety, increasing accident probability and affecting accident severity. Experimental research of the traffic calming measures allocation effect on the driving speed is presented in this paper. The research has been carried out on two aspects. The first one with respect to the mean speed and the second one regarding instantaneous speed. However, the paper is not only restricted by the above research. Standardized survey interview a

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Balant, Mojca, and Marjan Lep. "Comprehensive Traffic Calming as a Key Element of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans—Impacts of a Neighbourhood Redesign in Ljutomer." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (2020): 8143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198143.

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Negative impacts of motor vehicle traffic in cities are still increasing despite the objectives that sustainable mobility paradigm put forward almost three decades ago. Measures to reduce them still primarily focus on traffic safety improvements through vehicle speeds and flows reduction (traffic calming). Comprehensive traffic calming, a measure of sustainable urban mobility planning, targets the issue more comprehensively by also addressing changes in travel behaviour and quality of life. Literature covering the effects of measures addressing all listed aspects is scarce. In this paper, we p

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Jasiūnienė, Vilma, Gintarė Pociūtė, Audrius Vaitkus, Kornelija Ratkevičiūtė, and Algis Pakalnis. "Analysis and Evaluation of Trapezoidal Speed Humps and Their Impact on the Driver." Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering 13, no. 2 (2018): 104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/bjrbe.2018-13.404.

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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. The key measures of speed control are educational activities and engineering traffic calming measures. This paper presents an investigation of trapezoidal speed humps – one of the traffic calming measures – and their impact on the driver and the occupants of the vehicle. The level of discomfort to the driver and the occupants, caused by vibrations when the vehicle passes the speed hump, wa

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Bogdanović, Vuk, Valentina Basarić, Jelena Mitrović-Simić, et al. "Evaluating of traffic calming measures in city of Novi Sad." Tehnika 73, no. 6 (2018): 844–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/tehnika1806844b.

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Lee, Gunwoo, Shinhye Joo, Cheol Oh, and Keechoo Choi. "An evaluation framework for traffic calming measures in residential areas." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 25 (December 2013): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.08.002.

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Vasudevan, Vinod, Aniruddha Rajurkar, Rahul Soni, and Akhil Tiwari. "Design and Evaluation of K-Pass: A Bicycle-Friendly Modification of Speed Bumps." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 36 (2018): 157–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118783171.

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Traffic safety is a major concern across the world. Since speed is a major cause of traffic crashes, various traffic calming measures are used to enhance the safety of the road users in urban areas. Speed humps and bumps are the most widely used traffic calming devices. As a considerable number of bicyclists use the road along with motorized users, it is important to consider them while deploying any traffic calming devices. Studies have shown that bicyclists experience significantly larger discomfort as compared to motorized vehicles while passing over speed humps. In this study, a modificati

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De Borger, Bruno, and Stef Proost. "Road tolls, diverted traffic and local traffic calming measures: Who should be in charge?" Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 147 (May 2021): 92–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2021.03.004.

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Astrauskas, Tomas, Tomas Januševičius, and Raimondas Grubliauskas. "Vehicle Speed Influence on Ground-borne Vibrations Caused by Road Transport when Passing Vertical Traffic Calming Measures." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 32, no. 2 (2020): 247–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v32i2.3186.

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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. Vibration measurements were performed by the authors of this paper near the roads with traffic calming devices. The measurements were taken throughout two seasons: in the winter and in the summer in order to evaluate the influence of soil freezing on traffic-induced vibrations. The only car measured was Fiat Doblo (weight 1,405 kg), and its driving speed when passing a speed bump or a speed table was

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Gonzalo-Orden, Hernán, Marta Rojo, Heriberto Pérez-Acebo, and Alaitz Linares. "Traffic Calming Measures and their Effect on the Variation of Speed." Transportation Research Procedia 18 (2016): 349–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.12.047.

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Sarkar, Sheila, A. A. Jan Nederveen, and Albert Pols. "Renewed Commitment to Traffic Calming for Pedestrian Safety." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1578, no. 1 (1997): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1578-02.

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Success of road design depends to a large extent on how safe it is for different users. Unfortunately, in most instances the definition of road users in the United States has precluded pedestrians and bicyclists. Safety of pedestrians and bicyclists is most often relegated to a marginal status in many parts of the urban areas. The roads in the past few decades, with a few exceptions, were built for speed, ensuring maximum convenience to drivers, but, intimidating the green modes (pedestrians and bicyclists). Traffic calming is one way of reclaiming the roads for a more equitable use by differe

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Bohatkiewicz, Janusz. "Protection against traffic noise in urban areas in relation to noise control plans." Budownictwo i Architektura 13, no. 4 (2014): 075–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/bud-arch.1708.

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Exposure to traffic noise belongs to the most harmful impacts affecting people who live in towns. Nearly one third of residents of big towns in Poland suffers from permanent exposure to traffic noise, which may have adverse effects on health. The same refers to most European cities. The problems of noise is regulated by identical legislation in the EU and in Poland. Noise control in big towns arises from regulations related to obligatory provision of noise mapping and noise control plans. The plans contain, among other things, site-specific methods of protection against traffic noise. Those si

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Faheem, Hamdy. "SUITABILITY OF EXISTING TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES FOR USE ON SOME HIGHWAYS IN EGYPT." International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering 9, no. 9 (2012): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/iccae.2012.44388.

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Boulter, P. G., S. Latham, and M. Ainge. "Driving cycles for measuring passenger car emissions on roads with traffic calming measures." Science of The Total Environment 235, no. 1-3 (1999): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00193-x.

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Juhász, Mattias, and Csaba Koren. "Getting an Insight into the Effects of Traffic Calming Measures on Road Safety." Transportation Research Procedia 14 (2016): 3811–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.466.

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Domenichini, Lorenzo, Valentina Branzi, and Martina Smorti. "Influence of drivers’ psychological risk profiles on the effectiveness of traffic calming measures." Accident Analysis & Prevention 123 (February 2019): 243–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.11.025.

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Guegan, Dawn P., Peter T. Martin, and Wayne D. Cottrell. "Prioritizing Traffic-Calming Projects Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1708, no. 1 (2000): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1708-07.

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The analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a multiple-criteria decision-making tool, is used to prioritize traffic-calming projects. AHP is proposed as an alternative to existing point scoring systems. Prioritization methods used in traffic-calming programs in Portland, Oregon, and Canberra, Australia, are applied; the results are compared to those of AHP. The three methods apparently produce similar rankings when applied to local streets that have speeding problems. AHP produces rankings different from those of the other two methods, however, when complex issues and qualitative factors must be tak

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Mojsoska, Snezana. "Comparative Analysis of Traffic Calming Measures between Developed countries and the Republic of Macedonia." Security Dialogues /Безбедносни дијалози 2 (2015): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.47054/sd1520065m.

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Torres, Juan, Marie-Soleil Cloutier, Jacques Bergeron, and Annick St-Denis. "‘They installed a speed bump’: children’s perceptions of traffic-calming measures around elementary schools." Children's Geographies 18, no. 4 (2019): 477–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1685075.

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Davis, Gary A. "Method for Estimating Effect of Traffic Volume and Speed on Pedestrian Safety for Residential Streets." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1636, no. 1 (1998): 110–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1636-18.

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When local governments find that the demand for traffic-calming measures exceeds their available resources, it may be necessary to select the most needful or most promising projects. Since pedestrian-vehicle collisions tend to be rare on local streets, it will usually not be possible to use accident counts to identify high-hazard locations. A deterministic model of a collision between a pedestrian and a vehicle is described and then some of the model’s variables are allowed to be random. The probability of a collision can then be evaluated as the probability of obtaining a set of variable valu

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Liabo, K. "Can traffic calming measures achieve the Children's Fund objective of reducing inequalities in child health?" Archives of Disease in Childhood 88, no. 3 (2003): 235–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.3.235.

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Rodgers, S. E., S. J. Jones, S. M. Macey, and R. A. Lyons. "Using geographical information systems to assess the equitable distribution of traffic-calming measures: translational research." Injury Prevention 16, no. 1 (2010): 7–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2009.022426.

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Gaca, Stanisław, and Sylwia Pogodzińska. "Speed management as a measure to improve road safety on Polish regional roads." Archives of Transport 43, no. 3 (2017): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.4225.

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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. The authors briefly described speed management measures, the conditions for their implementation and their effectiveness with reference to environmental conditions and road safety. The further part of the paper presents selected results of the authors' research into the speed on various road segments equipped with different speed management measures. The estimations were made as to the impact of local speed li

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Loprencipe, Moretti, Pantuso, and Banfi. "Raised Pedestrian Crossings: Analysis of Their Characteristics on a Road Network and Geometric Sizing Proposal." Applied Sciences 9, no. 14 (2019): 2844. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9142844.

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In urban areas traffic-calming strategies and pedestrian friendly measures are often adopted to reduce the adverse impacts of motor vehicles on vulnerable users. This study surveyed 24 raised pedestrian crossings (RPCs) to examine their geometrical and functional characteristics. Geometric characteristics, location, administrative and effective vehicle speed, and the whole-body vibration acceleration induced to vehicle occupants while they are passing over, were considered. In addition to the analysis of the field data, geometrical and functional criteria to design RPCs were carried out. Parti

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Damsere-Derry, James, Beth E. Ebel, Charles N. Mock, Francis Afukaar, Peter Donkor, and Thomas Ojo Kalowole. "Evaluation of the effectiveness of traffic calming measures on vehicle speeds and pedestrian injury severity in Ghana." Traffic Injury Prevention 20, no. 3 (2019): 336–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2019.1581925.

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Akbari, Ali, and Farshidreza Haghighi. "Traffic calming measures: An evaluation of four low-cost TCMs' effect on driving speed and lateral distance." IATSS Research 44, no. 1 (2020): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iatssr.2019.07.002.

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Pérez-Acebo, Heriberto, Robert Ziółkowski, Alaitz Linares-Unamunzaga, and Hernán Gonzalo-Orden. "A Series of Vertical Deflections, a Promising Traffic Calming Measure: Analysis and Recommendations for Spacing." Applied Sciences 10, no. 10 (2020): 3368. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10103368.

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Traffic calming measures (TCM) are placed in urban areas to improve road safety, and among them, vertical TCMs are widely employed. Many researches are focused on the influence of the geometry of each measure on speed reduction, but it is demonstrated that drivers forget its effect and speed up after it. Therefore, placing consecutive TCMs can help to maintain a safe area. However, scarce literature can be found about the adequate spacing between them. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze the adequate distance between TCMs. Various streets with variable distances and different vertical T

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Pérez-Acebo, Heriberto, Xabier Otxoa-Muñoz, Mikel Marquina-Llaguno, and Hernán Gonzalo-Orden. "Analysis of the efficiency of traffic lights turning red in case of exceeding speed limit." Ingeniería e Investigación 41, no. 1 (2021): e86047. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v41n1.86047.

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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 speed and behavior to new conditions. This risk becomes even greater in rural roads that penetrate small villages without a bypass and with a short urban segment, since drivers do not normally speed down in these segments. Various measures can be installed, but traffic lights that turn red if the speed limit is exceeded is not usually considered

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Reddy, K. Chandrasekhar. "Identification of Accident Black Spots on Puttur to Ramagiri Road and Remedial Road Engineering & Traffic Calming Measures." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology V, no. IX (2017): 239–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2017.9035.

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Ariën, Caroline, Kris Brijs, Tom Brijs, et al. "Does the effect of traffic calming measures endure over time? – A simulator study on the influence of gates." Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 22 (January 2014): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2013.10.010.

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Ariën, Caroline, Ellen M. M. Jongen, Kris Brijs, Tom Brijs, Stijn Daniels, and Geert Wets. "A simulator study on the impact of traffic calming measures in urban areas on driving behavior and workload." Accident Analysis & Prevention 61 (December 2013): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2012.12.044.

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Oltra, Christian, Roser Sala, Sergi López-Asensio, Silvia Germán, and Àlex Boso. "Individual-Level Determinants of the Public Acceptance of Policy Measures to Improve Urban Air Quality: The Case of the Barcelona Low Emission Zone." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (2021): 1168. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031168.

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A variety of policy instruments that impose restrictions on traffic are being put in place across European cities to improve urban air quality. These measures include various schemes such as congestion charges, low emission zones (LEZs) and other traffic calming measures. In this paper, we are interested in the public acceptance of LEZs. Recent studies show high levels of public support for LEZs across Europe. However, specific research on public attitudes towards LEZs is limited. We conducted a self-administered survey (online) among residents in Barcelona, Spain. Based on a previous analytic

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Fernandes, Paulo, Tânia Fontes, Mark Neves, et al. "Assessment of Corridors with Different Types of Intersections." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2503, no. 1 (2015): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2503-05.

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Recently, roundabouts in a series have been installed along corridors to enhance road safety. However, the benefits of this traffic-calming technique on traffic performance and pollutant emissions compared with other forms of intersections, such as traffic lights and stop-controlled solutions, are not properly known. This study used a microscopic approach to evaluate the effects of a corridor with four roundabouts on traffic performance and emissions, in comparison with traffic lights and stop-controlled solutions. Average travel time and number of vehicle stops were used as measures of traffi

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Pérez-Sansalvador, Julio César, Noureddine Lakouari, Jesus Garcia-Diaz, and Saúl E. Pomares Hernández. "The Effect of Speed Humps on Instantaneous Traffic Emissions." Applied Sciences 10, no. 5 (2020): 1592. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10051592.

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Bad air quality due to free pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and volatile organic components (VOC) increases the risk of long- term health diseases. The impact of traffic-calming measures on air quality has been studied using specialized equipment at control sites or mounted on cars to monitor pollutants levels. However, this approach suffers from a large number of variables on the experiments such as vehicles types, number of monitored vehicles, driver’s behavior, traffic density, time of the day, elapsed monitoring time, road conditi

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Sulmicki, Maciej. "The impact of infrastructure on driver behavior on pedestrian crossings – case studies in two Mazovian cities." Mazowsze Studia Regionalne 2020, no. 33 (2020): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.21858/msr.33.06.

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In 2019 field studies were conducted in order to check how various aspects of pedestrian and cycle crossing infrastructure influence driver behavior. The overall goal was to verify the adequacy of the road safety-related provisions of the main strategic and planning documents of the Mazovia Region. The crossings analyzed in Warsaw and Radom were chosen so as to take into account all the types of traffic calming mentioned in the Spatial Development Plan of Mazovia as serving to improve safety on pedestrian crossings. Other aspects taken into account included road width, type of intersection and

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Joo, Shinhye, Gunwoo Lee, and Cheol Oh. "A multi-criteria analysis framework including environmental and health impacts for evaluating traffic calming measures at the road network level." International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 13, no. 1 (2017): 15–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1407850.

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Solowczuk, Alicja. "Effect of Traffic Calming Measures Implemented on the Approach to the Tempo–30 zone on the Degree of Speed Reduction." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 603 (September 18, 2019): 022044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/603/2/022044.

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Chang, Kevin N., Matthew Nolan, and Nancy L. Nihan. "Measuring Neighborhood Traffic Safety Benefits by Using Real-Time Driver Feedback Technology." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1922, no. 1 (2005): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105192200107.

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Local jurisdictions frequently respond to public concerns about speeding on neighborhood streets. When a speed study confirms that a significant percentage of vehicles are exceeding the posted speed limit, a traffic engineer carefully reviews the conditions to determine if additional safety measures need to be implemented. Preserving roadway safety for the motorized and the nonmotorized public alike who share the roadway is essential. Each jurisdiction is likely to use any number of solutions from its traffic safety toolbox. Additional signing, mobile radar speed display units, neighborhood sp

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Johansson, Charlotta, Per Gårder, and Lars Leden. "Toward Vision Zero at Zebra Crossings: Case Study of Traffic Safety and Mobility for Children and the Elderly, Malmö, Sweden." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1828, no. 1 (2003): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1828-08.

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The Swedish Vision Zero’s goal is to eliminate all fatalities and incapacitating traffic injuries. One step toward Vision Zero is through traffic calming. Code changes are also part of this effort. The Swedish Code concerning car drivers’ responsibility to give way to pedestrians was strengthened in 2000. A study was done to evaluate the short-term effects of the change in the code, as well as of the reconstruction of urban intersections to eliminate overtaking and speeding over 30 km/h. The focus of the evaluation was on children and elderly people, as pedestrians and cyclists. Between 1995 a

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