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T1 Evaluation of the Radar Speed Cameras and Panels Indicating the Vehicles’ Speed as Traffic Calming Measures (TCM) in Short Length Urban Areas Located along Rural Roads
A1 Pérez Acebo, Heriberto
A1 Ziolkowski, Robert
A1 Gonzalo Orden, Hernán
K1 Traffic calming measure
K1 Radar speed camera
K1 Urban area
K1 Road safety
K1 Rural roads
K1 Pedestrian
K1 Crosswalk
K1 Ingeniería civil
K1 Civil engineering
K1 Tecnología
K1 Technology
K1 Transporte
K1 Transportation
AB Traffic calming measures (TCMs) are implemented in urban areas to reduce vehicles’ speedand, generally speaking, results are obtained. However, speed is still a problem in rural roads crossingsmall villages without a bypass and with short-length urban areas, since drivers do not normallyreduce their speed for that short segment. Hence, various TCM can be installed. It is necessaryto maintain a calm area in these short segments to improve road safety, especially for pedestrianaiming to cross the road, and to save combustible by avoiding a constant increase-decrease of speed.Four villages were selected to evaluate the efficiency of radar speed cameras and panels indicatingvehicle’s speed. Results showed that the presence of radar speed cameras reduces the speed in thedirection they can fine, but with a lower effect in the non-fining direction. Additionally, a positiveeffect was observed in the fining direction in other points, such as pedestrian crossings. Nevertheless,the effect does not last long and speed cameras may be considered as punctual measures. If the TCMsare placed far from the start of the village they are not respected. Hence, it is recommended to placethem near the real start of the build-up area. Lastly, it was verified that longer urban areas makeoverall speed decrease. However, when drivers feel that they are arriving to the end of the urbanarea, due to the inexistence of buildings, they start speeding up.
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7650
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7650
LA eng
NO This research was funded by GIRDER Ingenieros, S.L.P., grant number 2019.0478, by “Erasmus + programme—Call 2016—KA1—Mobility of Staff in higher education—Staff mobility for teaching and training activities”, and by Project No WZ/WB-IIL/1/2020 and it was financially supported by Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 19-abr-2024