#Speediness intensifies drivers

The World Resources Institute (WRI) Low-Speed Zone Guide presents strategies for planning, designing, building, and evaluating low-speed zones in cities in the U.S. The ITE Implementing Context Sensitive Design on Multimodal Corridors: A Practicioner's Handbook, Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach and FHWA Context Sensitive Solutions and Design are helpful resources for transportation professionals considering a context sensitive solutions related to speeding and safety. Context sensitive design involves accommodating all street users, making decisions that reflect a shared stakeholder vision, and demonstrating an understanding of the tradeoffs that come with balancing multiple needs on, typically, complex urban roads. The following speed management strategies may be considered to raise awareness for safe speeds in predominantly denser land use settings:Ĭontext Sensitive Solutions - are driven by a collaborative, interdisciplinary design process that involves all stakeholders, including citizens, to develop a road facility that fits the physical setting and the needs of the public. Engineering StrategiesĮngineering strategies are usually comprehensive plans to re-design a road and surrounding area to change a road condition to provide a safer environment all road users. When selecting an engineering strategy and/or countermeasure, transportation professionals should consider road environment, type and classification, users, crash history, cost, and effectiveness to determine the most appropriate method of traffic calming and speed reduction. NACTO's City Limits includes a checklist to guide setting context sensitive and safe speeds based on certain conditions and presence of all road users. Additionally, NACTO also recently released a City Limits: Setting Safe Speed Limits on Urban Streets Guide that provides practitioners a detailed, context-sensitive method to set safe speed limits on urban streets. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Traffic Calming Eprimer module and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide are resources related to traffic calming for transportation professionals. A countermeasure is an intentional alteration to the road or surrounding environment that changes the behavior of road users. A strategy is a policy or plan to heighten awareness of speed, road context, multiple road users or other safety element that may impact traveling at the safest speed. Engineering strategies and countermeasures can also be used more broadly, to change a road behavior in order to create a safer condition.

Transportation professionals can implement engineering strategies and countermeasures, often referred to as traffic calming, to reduce speeds on a road with higher than desired speeds.

While there are at least 4 Es for safety in the transportation profession, the first 3 Es-engineering, enforcement, and education-are critical to transportation professionals looking to reduce speeds and implement a speed management program.

#Speediness intensifies drivers

Self-enforcing road - a road that encourages drivers to select operating speeds consistent with the posted speed limit. Traffic Calming - combination of physical measures to reduce the effects of motorist behaviors and improve conditions for all street users. NACTO City Limits Guide - This guidance provides practitioners a detailed, context-sensitive method to set safe speed limits on urban streets and includes a checklist guide setting context sensitive and safe speeds based on certain conditions and presence of all road users. This guide includes information on bringing low-speed zone designs together to fit the context as well as operating and evaluating a low-speed zones. WRI Low-Speed Zone Guide - Guidance on how agencies can plan, design, and implement effective low-speed zones from the World Resources Institute.