Effectiveness of Traffic Calming Measures
Although traffic crashes have been reduced significantly in New York City since 1990, safety continues to be a major concern. Traffic calming or similar measures have been shown to be effective countermeasures for improving safety and improving the multimodal street environment, and in fact New York City has successfully introduced numerous traffic calming measures. However, to increase the effectiveness of their efforts at further increasing safety, New York City Department of Transportation needs to have better information on the expected impacts of the traffic calming measures on safety and other factors such as traffic volumes as well as which measures are most appropriate to specific situations. Additionally, they need a tool that will allow them to continue evaluating the appropriateness of traffic calming and other measures to specific locations beyond the end of this project. The objective of this project is to allow New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) to proactively evaluate and address safety conditions in the city. More specifically, there are two main goals of this project: (1) Develop an enhanced analytic tool for NYCDOT to identify and evaluate safety issues in problematic locations; and (2) Determine the safety impacts of recently implemented and new candidate traffic calming measures. <p> </p>
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $383685.00
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Contract Numbers:
RF 57863-04-01
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Sponsor Organizations:
New York City Department of Transportation
40 Worth Street
New York, NY United States 10013 -
Project Managers:
Berman, Seth
Doherty, Ann Marie
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Performing Organizations:
University Transportation Research Center
City College of New York
Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY United States 10031 -
Principal Investigators:
Yang, Fan
McKnight, Claire
Chen, Cynthia
- Start Date: 20081124
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20101231
- Source Data: RiP Project 20242
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Pedestrian safety; Research projects; Traffic calming; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Traffic volume
- Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01468385
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
- Contract Numbers: RF 57863-04-01
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:50PM