Managing Speed

Managing Speed
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780309065023

TRB Special Report 254 - Managing Speed: Review of Current Practices for Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits reviews practices for setting and enforcing speed limits on all types of roads and provides guidance to state and local governments on appropriate methods of setting speed limits and related enforcement strategies. Following an executive summary, the report is presented in six chapters and five appendices.

A Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design

A Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design
Author:
Publisher: AASHTO
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1560512598

Context-sensitive solutions (CSS) reflect the need to consider highway projects as more than just transportation facilities. Depending on how highway projects are integrated into the community, they can have far-reaching impacts beyond their traffic or transportation function. CSS is a comprehensive process that brings stakeholders together in a positive, proactive environment to develop projects that not only meet transportation needs, but also improve or enhance the community. Achieving a flexible, context-sensitive design solution requires designers to fully understand the reasons behind the processes, design values, and design procedures that are used. This AASHTO Guide shows highway designers how to think flexibly, how to recognize the many choices and options they have, and how to arrive at the best solution for the particular situation or context. It also strives to emphasize that flexible design does not necessarily entail a fundamentally new design process, but that it can be integrated into the existing transportation culture. This publication represents a major step toward institutionalizing CSS into state transportation departments and other agencies charged with transportation project development.

Speed Management

Speed Management
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

This Report addresses the key issues surrounding traffic speed management and highlights the improvements in policy and operations needed to reduce the extent of speeding.

Methods and Practices for Setting Speed Limits

Methods and Practices for Setting Speed Limits
Author: Gerry John Forbes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Speed limits
ISBN: 9781933452654

"This informational report describes four primary practices and methodologies (engineering approach, expert systems, optimization, and injury minimization) that are used in establishing speed limits. It also reviews the basic legalities of speed limits and presents several case studies for setting speed limits on a variety of roads"--Provided by publisher.

Roadside Design Guide

Roadside Design Guide
Author: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1989
Genre: Roads
ISBN: