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Title:
TRAFFIC CALMING IN NEW DEVELOPMENTS: AVOIDING THE NEED FOR FUTURE FIXES
Accession Number:
00781448
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Transportation Research Board Business Office
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States
Abstract:
Recent efforts in the United States to include traffic-calming design in new developments are described. These efforts prevent the need to fix speeding and cut-through traffic problems later. It is clearly more cost-effective to design residential streets for speed and volume control than to go back and retrofit, as hundreds of communities are now forced to do. Traffic-calming initiatives of communities that are featured in the upcoming Institute of Transportation Engineers' book "Traffic Calming State-of-the-Art" are summarized. The emphasis is on regulatory mechanisms that can be used to implement traffic-calming standards in new developments. Then the standards themselves are presented, and street-network-design principles from the state of Florida's "Best Development Practices" are summarized. Standards are established for network connectivity and route density. Next, street-subdivision standards prepared for the Wilmington Area Planning Council, and currently under review for statewide adoption, are outlined. A rationale is provided for each proposed standard that differs from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' generally accepted standard.
Supplemental Notes:
This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1685, Transportation Planning, Programming, Public Participation, and Land Use.
Corporate Authors:
Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States
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Subject Areas:
Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Created Date:
Jan 5 2000 12:00AM
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