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Traffic calming is a set of strategies used by urban planners and traffic engineers which aim to slow down or reduce traffic, thereby improving safety for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as improving the environment for residents. Calming measures are common in Europe, especially Northern Europe; less so in North America.
Traffic calming was traditionally justified on the grounds of pedestrian safety and reduction of noise and local air pollution which are side effects of the traffic. However, streets have many social and recreational functions which are severely impaired by car traffic. The Livable Streets study found that residents of streets with light traffic had, on average, three more friends and twice as many acquaintances as the people on streets with heavy traffic which were otherwise similar in dimensions, income, etc. For much of the twentieth century, streets were designed by engineers who were charged only with ensuring traffic flow and not with fostering the other functions of streets. The basis for traffic calming is broadening traffic engineering to include designing for these functions.
There are 3 "E"'s that traffic engineers refer to when discussing traffic calming: engineering, (community) education, and (police) enforcement. Because neighborhood traffic management studies have shown that often it is the residents themselves who are contributing to the perceived speeding problem within the neighborhood, it is stressed that the most effective traffic calming plans will entail all three components, and that engineering measures alone will not produce satisfactory results.
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Institute for Transport Studies - Report providing a review of current traffic calming techniques .
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Neighborhood Traffic Management Program: NTMP - Information on traffic calming efforts in Madison, Wisconsin. Summarizes whole topic well via descriptions, photographs, graphs, tables, references.
Pennsylvania's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Resource - An introduction to traffic calming designed to help communities determine appropriate methods and to aid in their implementation. Includes a video and photo library.
Traffic Calming - Provides information on actual practical examples. Includes photographs and comments on use.
Traffic Calming - Information on industry devices, theory, data, photos, studies, reports, FAQs, laws, from the City of Portland, Oregon, Traffic Calming Programs.
Traffic Calming - FHWA - Provides general objectives and measures. Also includes related links and studies.
Traffic Calming Bibliography - Provides a listing of documents, information sources, and Web resources.
Traffic Calming in Minnesota - A searchable database of traffic calming projects in the state.
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Traffic Calming Library - Contains a searchable database of reports, articles and other documents. Provided by the Institute of Transportation Engineers .
Traffic Calming.org - Comprehensive guide to traffic calming, neighborhood traffic management: its history, methods and measures, example plans, photographs; its impacts.
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