The impact of lowered residential speed limits on vehicle speed behavior

Safety Science

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 483-494

  Islam, Md Tazul ^a   El Basyouny, Karim ^a   Ibrahim, Shewkar E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CITY OF EDMONTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Before after study; Confounding factors; Residential speed limits reduction; Speed limit compliance; Speeding

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

BEFORE-AFTER STUDY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS; SPEED LIMIT; SPEED LIMIT COMPLIANCE; SPEEDING;

SPEED;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR VEHICLE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84886643111     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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