Traffic calming techniques - experience and practical advice with 80 case studies

This book provides an introduction to traffic calming, considers traffic calming in context, and the design and implementation of traffic calming measures. Techniques for traffic calming are described in detail, including vertical or horizontal deflections, traffic management / control, traffic signs, road markings and lighting, area-wide treatments, enforcement activity, community involvement, the needs of special user groups, lessons learned from experience, traffic calming in the future, earlier schemes reviewed, and more recent schemes. Each of the case studies is fully illustrated.

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• Corporate Authors:

  COUNTY SURVEYORS SOCIETY

  HIGHWAYS AND PLANNING DIRECTORATE, LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, 4TH FLOOR, CITY HALL
  LINCOLN,   United Kingdom  LN1 1DN

  INSTITUTION OF HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORTATION

  6 ENDSLEIGH STREET
  LONDON,   United Kingdom  WC1H 0DZ

  County Surveyors Society /UK

  ,    

  Institute of Highways and Transportation (IHT)

  ,   United Kingdom 
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 280p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation and assessment; Highway design; Law enforcement; Methodology; Photography; Planning; Public participation; Road markings; Speed control; Textbooks; Traffic control; Traffic restraint; Traffic signs
• ITRD Terms: 562: Carriageway marking; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 2855: Highway design; 9102: Method; 6751: Photography; 143: Planning; 142: Public participation; 2833: Speed control (struct elem); 8526: Textbook; 654: Traffic control; 633: Traffic restraint; 553: Traffic sign
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01012688
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0902933-38-8
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 21 2005 2:58PM