Speed zoning guidelines: making NSW roads safer

Safe travel speed is a vital component of implementing a Safe System. Speed zoning is a tool to determine safe travel speed limits by providing a balance between road safety, land use amenity and transport efficiency. A comprehensive review of the NSW Speed Zoning Guidelines, Version 2.3 (2004) was undertaken in view of improving road safety outcomes. This review identified a number of areas which could be significantly improved. This paper discusses the procedures and guidelines relating to speed zoning in the new NSW Speed Zoning Guidelines, Version 3 (2009). The new guidelines more precisely reflect road safety risk while maintaining mobility and amenity. Speed zoning is now more consistent with road safety performance, roadside environment, road types, and is clearly communicated to all road users. The new approach to speed zoning is a key step in the development of future speed management strategies such as speed zone management system and intelligent speed adaptation.

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• Authors:
  • Bhatnagar, Y
  • De Roos, M
  • Graham, R
  • Johnson, H
  • Carruthers, P
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Research Policing Education Conference, 2009, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Publication Date: 2009-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 2009 Australian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 November 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Speed control; Speed limits; Traffic safety; Transportation departments
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (engineering and vehicles)
• Geographic Terms: New South Wales
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Road authority; Road safety; Speed control; Speed limit
• Subject Areas: Law; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01381961
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 9781921692260
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 12:55PM