More Speed Resources
Fair Warnings: Recommendations to Promote Equity in Speed Safety Camera Programs
Source: Vision Zero Network
Introduces a new resource highlighting how speed cameras can serve as an alternative to traditional enforcement when thoughtfully planned, implemented, and monitored with a focus on equity. Provides a summary and details on a January 28 webinar.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides practitioners with information on how to conduct an engineering study to set a speed limit for a speed zone based on the provisions in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD).
Read More >Source: City of Seattle
The City of Seattle implemented vision zero policies, such as speed limit reduction.
Read More >Can transit-oriented developments help achieve the recommended weekly level of physical activity?
Source: Journal of Transport & Health
According to a recent study, approximately 20 percent of transit users acquire their daily recommended amount of physical activity simply by walking to and from transit stops.
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The aim of this study was to examine drivers’ view on their own speeding behaviour by focusing on belief based measures as suggested by the theory of planned behaviour.
Read More >Study highlights rising pedestrian deaths, points toward solutions
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Pedestrian deaths have jumped 46 percent since 2009. The increase has been mostly in cities and suburbs, away from intersections, on arterial roads and in the dark.
Read More >Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety publication.
Read More >Source: Fort Collins Municipal Court
Regulations regarding radar/red light citations in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Read More >Impact Speed and a Pedestrian’s Risk of Severe Injury or Death
This study examines how vehicle speed influences the probability that a pedestrian struck by a vehicle will sustain severe injuries or die.
Read More >National Association of City Transportation Officials' (NACTO's) City Limits
Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Outlines how to use a tested, context-sensitive safe systems approach to strategically set safer speed limits on urban streets to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries.
Read More >Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Speed Management Resources
Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Presents a compendium of guides, policies, and practices related to managing traffic speeds.
Read More >Source: League of American Bicyclists
Describes the Slow Roads Save Lives Campaign advocating for slower speeds and improved road design.
Read More >Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Introduces a five-stage framework to help practitioners better understand the impacts of speed on road safety.
Read More >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: ITE and FHWA
Introduces a five-stage framework to help practitioners better understand the impacts of speed on road safety.
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 >Cincinnati Uses Quick-Build Project to Address an Urgent Safety Need
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and National Center for Safe Routes to School
Provides a look at a quick-build project in Cincinnati to address an urgent safety need and offers insights that can inform cities interested in implementing quick-build projects.
Read More >Source: Walk San Francisco
Describes how over 35 advocacy groups pushed for a city speed management plan and conducted speed surveys to create a blueprint for San Francisco, CA to become a "a safe speeds city."
Read More >Source: USDOT
Addresses the national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
Read More >Source: World Resources Institute
This Low-Speed Zone Guide presents strategies for planning, designing, building, and evaluating low-speed zones in cities.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Winter 2021 summary of research and resources from the FHWA Human Factors Team.
Read More >The Benefits of Slowing Down Traffic Starting Where Children Walk and Bike
Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief describes lessons learned on addressing speed through roadway design and operations changes that benefit youth walkers and bicyclists.
Read More >Source: Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF)
Provides an overview of theory-informed road safety campaigns, along with example evaluations of campaigns related to drunk and distracted driving, seatbelt use, speeding, and bicyclists and pedestrians.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Offers principles behind Vision Zero to provide a foundation for policymaking and planning.
Read More >Lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph in Boston: effects on vehicle speeds
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Study evaluated the effects of the speed limit reduction from 30mph to 25mph on speeds in Boston, Massachusetts.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal
Advances six inter-related focus areas to manage traffic speeds, including: data and data-driven approaches; research and evaluation; technology; enforcement and adjudication; engineering; education and communications.
Read More >Source: World Health Organization
Demonstrates how excessive and inappropriate speed is among the key risks for road traffic deaths and injuries worldwide and illustrates how safe speeds are among main components of a “safe systems approach” to road safety.
Read More >Impact Speed and a Pedestrian's Risk of Severe Injury or Death
Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
This study estimates of the risk of severe injury or death for pedestrians struck by vehicles at various speeds.
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Study conducted to quantify the effect of the introduction of 20 mph (32 km an hour) traffic speed zones on road collisions, injuries, and fatalities in London.
Read More >Source: Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV)
The paper evaluates current techniques used by police to enforce speed limits, and recommends new strategies.
Read More >Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
The relationship between vehicle travel speeds and resulting pedestrian injury was reviewed in the literature and in existing data sets.
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