A TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLBOX--A TECHNICAL RESOURCE DEVELOPED FOR THE SOUTH WESTERN REGION OF CONNECTICUT

This paper describes the development of a technical resource used by eight communities in southwestern Connecticut as a guide for the development of traffic calming programs. The project developed from increasing demands by residents of towns in the region for the implementation of traffic calming measures to address perceived, and in many instances all too real, vehicular traffic intrusion into neighborhoods and residential streets. The program was designed with four goals in mind: research the state of the art in traffic calming, conduct a public outreach and education program in the region to determine issues and traffic calming needs, hold community and regional meetings on traffic calming, and compile a tool box to serve as a reference guide for regional communities. The paper describes the process of the study and presents the results of the team's efforts. The final product of the project was a Traffic Calming Toolbox Report that compiled resources on the do's and don'ts of traffic calming.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ite.org/traffic/documents/CCA99A47.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available only on CD. This paper was also presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of ITE, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1-4, 1999.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Ford, J W
  • Court, T
  • Prosi, S
• Conference:
  • Enhancing Transportation Safety in the 21st Century ITE International Conference
  • Location: Kissimmee, Florida
  • Date: 1999-3-28 to 1999-3-31
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 23p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Guidelines; Metropolitan areas; Regional planning; Residential areas; Residential streets; Towns; Traffic calming; Traffic restraint
• Geographic Terms: Connecticut; Darien (Connecticut); Greenwich (Connecticut); New Canaan (Connecticut); Norwalk (Connecticut); Stamford (Connecticut); Weston (Connecticut); Westport (Connecticut); Wilton (Connecticut)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00768847
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 14 1999 12:00AM