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T1 Traffic calming measures and their effect on the variation of speed
A1 Gonzalo Orden, Hernán
A1 Rojo Arce, Marta
A1 Pérez Acebo, Heriberto
A1 Linares Unamunzaga, Alaitz
K1 Safety
K1 Traffic Calming
K1 Transportes
K1 Transportation
AB In recent years the number of deaths and serious injuries is decreasing in Spain, but, although the reduction outside the cities has been very strong, inside the urban areas, it has been smaller. This is especially hard if you look at the most vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. In many accidents the speed factor appears closely linked not only to the number, but also to the severity of the accidents suffered inside the urban areas. Therefore, a reduction in the speed would improve the road safety.There are different measures known as “traffic calming measures” whose objectives are to reduce both the number and severity of accidents that occur on urban areas, by reducing the traffic flow through the streets, as well as the speed of the vehicles. However, the efficiency in speed reduction of each measure is not entirely known. That's the reason why they are implanted, in many cases, with no technical basis.The aim of this article is to show the effectiveness in reducing speed of some of the traffic calming measures. To this effect, field measurements were done on street sections with different types of traffic calming measures, in different places of a city of Burgos, in the north of Spain. These measurements were compared with other ones sited on other streets sections of similar characteristics but without traffic calming measures.Finally the conclusions are shown and some recommendations for improving their effectiveness are given.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-1465
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5831
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5831
LA spa
NO Trabajo presentado en XII Conference on Transport Engineering, CIT 2016, 7-9 june 2016, Valencia, Spain.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024