Road safety through less traffic : how do we get real change in travel choices ? Paper presented at the 4th biennial Australasian traffic education conference, Canberra, February 14, 1992.

Author(s)
Brindle, R.E.
Year
Abstract

This paper is a response to queries about the practicality and effects of urban travel restraint (sometimes described as `traffic calming' at the city-wide level), and particularly its potential as a road safety measure. The gap between desire and reality is stressed; particular difficulties stem from the nature of urban travel and the limited success to date of travel restraint measures. The behavioural implications of a range of traffic calming measures, including city-wide travel changes, are discussed. It is concluded that the achievement of a state of traffic calming at its fullest would require a revolutionary change in social attitude. Traffic educators play a role in that. (A).

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C 8100 (In: C 8078) /73 /82 /83 / IRRD 868570
Source

In: Living with traffic : twenty-seven contributions to the art and practice of traffic calming 1979-1992, ARRB Special Report ASR 53, 1996, p. 291-299, 11 ref.

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