EXPERIENCE REPORT. 30 KM/H SPEED LIMITED ZONES IN HAMBURG. SPEED REDUCTION MEASURES ON MAJOR INNER CITY ROADS

This paper discusses in what respect the implementation of speed limited zones (maximum 30 km/h) will be possible and necessary. Experiences over a decade of speed limited zones in Hamburg showed that: (1) the total number of accidents in speed limited zones went down by 10%; and (2) that accidents with injured people or death decreased by 16%. The social acceptance of the 30 km/h speed zones by car drivers detected by police speed enforcement measures is 55%. In the spring of 1992, the Hamburg Police Traffic Department reduced the existing speed limit from 60 km/h to 50 km/h with a package of measures. This consisted of a combination of engineering measures, public education, and intense enforcement. Speed and accident investigations were conducted before and after the speed limit reduction implementation. The Hamburg Police found out that the speed limit decrease reduced the accident figures on the restricted main roads by 19,7%. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 867839.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Institute

  Technion City
  Haifa,   Israel 
• Authors:
  • SCHARPING, F-K
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY: LESSONS FROM THE PAST, SHAPING THE FUTURE, NOVEMBER 7-10, 1994, TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 585-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Attitudes; Before and after studies; Conferences; Evaluation and assessment; Law enforcement; Prevention; Publicity; Residential areas; Safety; Speed limits; Traffic engineering; Traffic restraint; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9148: Before and after study; 8525: Conference; 9009: Decrease; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 8125: Germany; 2748: Main road; 8573: Publicity; 307: Residential area; 624: Speed limit; 655: Traffic engineering; 633: Traffic restraint; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00675870
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 12 1995 12:00AM