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T1 Why is necessary to reduce the speed in urban areas to 30 KM/H?
A1 Gonzalo Orden, Hernán
A1 Rojo Arce, Marta
A1 Linares Unamunzaga, Alaitz
A1 Aponte Sanjínez, María Nadia
A1 Pérez Acebo, Heriberto
K1 Tráfico
K1 Traffic
K1 Seguridad vial
K1 Road safety
K1 Áreas urbanas
K1 Urban areas
K1 Ingeniería civil
K1 Civil engineering
K1 Transportes
K1 Transportation
AB In Spain, on November 2020, a new law imposed that the generic speed limit on singlecarriageway two-lane roads is reduced from 50 km/h to 30 km/h.The changes in the general rules of traffic, proposed by the Spanish government, are a sampleof the evolution, in the use of the shared space of the streets, and at the same time shows itssensitivity towards road safety. Traditionally, the objective of the regulation was to attend tothe growing increase in the use of motor vehicles (mainly cars), and for this reason, it wasthe protagonist in most of the articles of the General Traffic Regulations. Today, in manycities, the car is no longer the protagonist and shares the space on the streets, not only withother motor vehicles as buses or motorcycles, but also with pedestrians, bicycles, electricpedal-assisted cycles (EPAC), personal mobility vehicle (PMV), …Pedestrian mobility is becoming more and more important every day but the number ofpedestrians that died inside Spanish urban areas in road accidents is almost 50% of totalurban areas road fatalities. In this sense, the mobility and road safety policies developed bylocal administrations have to focus on the objective of the reduction of accidents and theirseverity involving pedestrians and other vulnerable users in urban areas.This article collects studies and experiences in other countries that show the effects ofreducing the speed of motor vehicles in urban areas in order to reduce accidents and/or theirseverity if they occur. It also analyzes other options that reinforce this measure and that couldhelp reduce this problem.
PB Universidad de Burgos. Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional
SN 978-84-18465-12-3
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7026
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7026
LA eng
NO Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de Burgos
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 04-dic-2024