EVALUATION OF VDOT'S TRAFFIC CALMING GUIDE AND PILOT PROGRAM
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), with over 44,000 mi (70,796 km) of roadway in its secondary road system, is one of only a few state DOTs that operate and maintain local roads. Many of these are located in neighborhood and subdivisions in the state's counties; accordingly, traffic calming is a city and town issue as well as a statewide issue for VDOT and Virginia's counties. Since the late 1980s, two statewide policies, one addressing through truck traffic problems and one addressing cut-through traffic, have been available to help neighborhoods. In 1997, VDOT developed a Residential Traffic Calming Guide that provides neighborhoods with a third traffic management tool that deals specifically with speeding on neighborhood streets. These two policies and one guide have been combined and are being promoted by VDOT under the umbrella of a residential traffic management program.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Conference proceedings available only on CD-ROM.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Washington, DC United States -
Authors:
- Arnold Jr, E D
- Cottrell Jr, B H
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Conference:
- Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Date: 1999-8-1 to 1999-8-4
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 6p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Handbooks; Neighborhoods; Pilot studies; Residential areas; Residential streets; Speeding; State departments of transportation; State laws; Through traffic; Traffic calming; Truck traffic
- Uncontrolled Terms: Cut through traffic
- Geographic Terms: Virginia
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00770230
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 16 1999 12:00AM