OPERATING SPEEDS AND SPEED ZONING

SUMMARY EVIDENCE FROM THREE STUDIES CONDUCTED IN ILLINOIS INDICATE SUCCESS IN OBTAINING VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE WITH SPEED LIMITS WHEN THE PRINCIPLES OF GRADUATED SPEED ZONING, INSTEAD OF LOCAL STATUTORY CLASSIFICATION, WERE USED IN POSTING THE LIMITS. CRITICAL SPEED ZONES, POSTED AT APPROACHES TO HORIZONTAL CURVES, WERE EFFECTIVE IN IMPROVING PATTERNS OF SPEED PRACTICES. ENFORCEMENT MUST RELY ON INFORMATIONAL ADEQUACY RATHER THAN DECEPTION.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No 1, 4 PP
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Research Board

  /Rural Traffic Problems
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Harrison, H H
• Publication Date: 1939

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Rural Traffic Problems
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Laws; Rural areas; Speed; Speed limits; Speed zones; Traffic signs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Speed laws
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic sign observance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00228147
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 28 1972 12:00AM