Summary Report Of The Fhwa Study Tour For Speed Management And Enforcement Technology

Tour of the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Australia.

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

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.

This comprehensive 2nd edition covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety. In particular it covers the increasing roles that pedestrians and cyclists have in the traffic system; the role of infotainment in driver distraction; and the increasing role of driver assistance systems in changing the driver-vehicle interaction.

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds a prominent place among the techniques of public policy analysis. Exposure to the fundamental issues surrounding the use of CBA and examples of its practical application have value to current and future practitioners of policy analysis as well as to researchers in the policy sciences. This volume seeks to facilitate such exposure by drawing together into a convenient collection the fine articles on CBA and its application that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).

This report continues the emphasis in documenting evaluation results of ITS user services and the benefits these services provide to the surface transportation system. It is intended to be a reference report. It highlights the benefits identified by other authors and refers the reader to information sources. The interested reader is encouraged to obtain source documents to appreciate the assumptions and constraints placed on the interpretation of results.

This report summarizes the results of the work performed under the project Study of Optimal Travel Speed Limits for Shared Traffic. The objectives of the research were to determine if a 25-mph speed limit addresses safety needs of bicyclists and pedestrians sharing roadway with vehicles, to recommend a method to assess and set speed limits for shared use of public right of way by motor vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic, and to recommend optimum speed limits for shared use bicycle/motor vehicle traffic in terms of different perspectives for low volumes, low speeds, and road geometry.