PEDESTRIANIZED ZONES IN TOWN CENTRES. 4 EXPERIMENTS IN FRANCE: ROUEN, GRENOBLE, AVIGNON,CHERBOURG

ZONES PIETONNIERES EN CENTRE VILLE - QUATRE EXPERIENCES FRANCAISES: ROUEN, GRENOBLE, AVIGNON, CHERBOURG

In approximately 20 towns in France, traffic restraint and pedestrianization experiments were carried out. This pamphlet describes 4 of them in Rouen, Grenoble, Avignon and Cherbourg. Details are given of the conditions in the zone before the operation started, criteria for the selection of a zone for the experiment, characteristics and costs of the installation, reactions to the project, legal and financial problems encountered, various regulations which had to be set up, and the results obtained. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transport Research

  Avenue du General Malleret-Joinville, Arcueil
  Val de Marne, 94,   France 
• Authors:
  • Bonneau, P
  • Frebault, J
• Publication Date: 1971-9

Language

• French

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 85 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; City planning; Costs; Highway safety; Pedestrian areas; Pedestrian malls; Traffic restraint; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: France
• Old TRIS Terms: Safety zone
• ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 8036: France; 2885: Layout; 341: Pedestrian precinct; 311: Town centre; 354: Town planning; 330: Trade
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00127741
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institut de Recherche des Transports
• Report/Paper Numbers: R&D Rept.
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 7 1976 12:00AM