High speed relative to the environment has long been recognised as a road safety problem. The concepts of speed management and traffic calming were developed in response to this problem. Traffic calming is essentially a way of reducing vehicle speeds by self-enforcing traffic engineering methods. Traffic calming is commonly applied in urban and residential road safety management and in the road safety management of through routes in towns and villages. The latter application is the subject of this guideline. * Chapter 1 deals with preplanning, selection and evaluation. * Chapter 2 deals with traffic calming techniques appropriate to the transition zone on routes between the rural and urban area. * Chapter 3 deals with ancillary traffic calming techniques appropriate to the urban section of the route. * Chapter 4 deals with the consultation process and legal considerations. * Chapter 5 presents a planting specification. * Chapter 6 presents a technical specification. The contents of the above chapters are complementary and should not be considered in isolation. In preparing a scheme the designer should have regard to the entire document so that an integrated scheme may be achieved. (A)
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