ITS in an Integrated Approach to Speed Management: Status Report of the OECD-EMCT Joint Working Group on Speed Management

Speed, most notably excessive speed, has a big influence on road safety, the environment (noise, air pollution), travel times and economy, and land use. A two-year project of the Joint OECD-ECMT Transport Research Centre is carrying out a comprehensive review of speed management, The review includes the various effects of speed, the effectiveness of speed management systems and methods and on a sound speed management, which is required in order to improve the current situation. At the conclusion of the project, a set of recommendations will be provided to the national transport authorities for their consideration in developing future speed management policies and programs. This paper describes the project and examines recent experience with two advanced speed management technologies -- intelligent speed adaptation and automated enforcement. Vehicle-based, infrastructure-based and cooperative ITS systems can potentially be part of comprehensive speed management strategies including improved enforcement methods, infrastructure and non-ITS technologies.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Sweet, Derek
  • Nouvier, Jacques
  • White, James
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; References;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Engineering; Event data recorders; Highway safety; Intelligent speed adaptation; Intelligent transportation systems; Noise; Public transit; Speed; Technological innovations; Travel time; Vehicles
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01016201
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2006 9:56AM