GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF SPEED HUMPS

This Recommended Practice provides guidelines for the design and application of speed humps, a geometric design technique to control vehicular traffic speeds along a roadway. Speed humps consist of raised pavement constructed or placed in, on, and across or partly across a roadway. For the purposes of this document, speed humps are defined as a roadway geometric design feature whose primary purpose is to reduce the speed of vehicles traveling along that roadway. Speed humps are not a cure-all for residential traffic problems but where it has been determined that a residential traffic management problem exists, properly designed, constructed and installed speed humps can be an appropriate and effective technique to reduce or eliminate traffic problems.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This "Guidelines for the Design and Application of Speed Humps" supercedes Proposed Recommended Practice, RP-023, March 1993.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 39 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design practices; Design standards; Geometric design; Recommendations; Speed control humps; Standards; Traffic control; Traffic control devices
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00765578
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0935403108
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 1999 12:00AM