Citation

Hidas P. Road Transp. Res. 1993; 2(4): 18-27.

Affiliation

Univ of New South Wales, Kensington, Aust

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Australian Road Research Board)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

The main objective of Local Area Traffic Management (LATM) is to improve living and environmental conditions in residential areas by managing traffic on local streets. Many LATM schemes have been implemented in Australia since the 1980s. Several studies have demonstrated that most of them have successfully achieved the objectives set, and there is a clear evidence of the general positive response to LATM by the public. However, there is also a noticeable increase in community-and sometimes offical-opposition to LATM. Opinion surveys have shown that motorists feel disadvantaged by speed contro measures such as speed humps. Local residents living near the devices often complain of deterioration of, rather than improvement in environmental conditions, and some devices have had to be removed because of complaints., In this paper the problems associated with current techniques of speed management in local streets are analysed and recommendations as how to eliminate the unwanted side-effects of currently used physical control devices are formulated. An attempt is made to devise a new type of physical speed control technique in the form of a continuous wave-profile vertical alignment. The advantages and the difficulties of the proposed solution are discussed, and some unresolved questions are suggested for further research.

Language: en