More Speed Resources
Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
Explores the potential spillover effects of increasing posted speed limits on Interstates.
Read More >Guide for Safe Speeds: Managing Traffic Speeds to Save Lives and Improve Livability
Source: World Bank Group
Offers evidence to inform decision-making and address barriers to adjusting traffic speeds.
Read More >Source: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Develops statewide guidelines for pedestrian safety on high-speed arterials.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Explores the enduring effects of segregation and present-day social factors on current street conditions around schools and disinvested communities via a StoryMap focusing on these impacts in Atlanta,
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Compiles initial reactions to and recommendations for the updated 11th Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
Read More >Improving Pedestrian Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning from Australasia
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Documents findings from a research team studying Australian and New Zealand approaches to reduce pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries on urban, signalized arterial roadways.
Read More >Seven Proven Steps to Improve Safety for Walking, Biking, Rolling, and More
Source: CityLab
Lists proven Safe Systems approach steps to increase safety for people walking, biking, and rolling rather than blaming victims: decrease speed limits; focus on design; rewrite the MUTCD; prioritize the most dangerous street;
Read More >Radar Sensors for Intelligent Multimodal Intersection Traffic Monitoring
Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
Reports on the development of a high-resolution radar sensor that can reliably distinguish between cars and pedestrians and capture counts, speed, and direction of each moving target, despite lighting and weather conditions.
Read More >Speed, Affordability, Equity, and Transportation Planning Practices
Source: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Provides slides of a presentation that describes how common planning practices favor faster modes and higher traffic speeds over slower but more affordable and resource-efficient options resulting in inequities.
Read More >E-Cars Not the Only Answer for Reducing Carbon Emissions: E-Bikes Overlooked
Source: Treehugger
Reports that from any basis of comparison—speed of rollout, cost, equity, safety, the space taken for driving or parking, embodied carbon or operating energy—e-bikes beat e-cars for most people, however,
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