REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC REGULATION IN MUNICIPALITIES; ONE-WAY STREETS

THE DATA APPEAR TO CONFIRM THAT THE DESIGNATION OF STREETS, HITHERTO UTILIZED FOR TWO-WAY MOVEMENT FOR ONE-WAY TRAFFIC MAY MAKE AVAILABLE ADDITIONAL LANES, MAY NEARLY DOUBLE THE CAPACITY AND MAY MATERIALLY INCREASE THE AVERAGE RUNNING SPEED. REDUCTION IN ACCIDENTS, PARTICULARLY BETWEEN INTERSECTIONS, OF AS MUCH AS 50 PER CENT MAY BE EXPECTED. PROGRESSIVE SIGNALIZATION AND CONTROL OF SPEEDS IS GREATLY FACILITATED. PUBLIC APPROVAL IS WIDESPREAD FOLLOWING A FEW SCATTERED DISSENSIONS DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHANGE. WITH ADEQUATE INFORMATION AFFORDED THE PUBLIC, THE NEW REGULATIONS ARE EASILY ENFORCED. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbproceedings/18/18Part1-031.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 18, Pt 1, PP 334-339, 2 FIG; part of Report of Department of Traffic. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Canning, W S
  • Mitchell, R A
  • Morrison, R L
  • Burch, J S
• Publication Date: 1939

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board Held at Washington, D.C. November 28-December 2, 1938. Part I
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Proceedings
  • Volume: 18
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Intersections; One way traffic; Speed; Traffic regulations; Traffic signals; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225826
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 1 1971 12:00AM