The Victorian Speed Management Policy Committee requested that a study be undertaken to gain a better understanding of actual speeds through strip shopping centres, with a view to developing guidelines for the use of time-based speed limits should they be warranted. Speed surveys were undertaken in ten typical strip shopping centres to produce a graphical and tabular illustration of speed profiles through each of the shopping centres overa 24 hour period for three days. This paper reports on the findings of these surveys. The paper concludes that there is not a significant speeding problem through strip shopping centres during shopping hours, with respect to the current legal limit of 60 km/h. In an environment where significant numbers of vehicles are already constrained to travelling at or below 40 km/h, the use of part-time speed limits is considered to be unnecessary and is likely to raise a number of administrative and practical problems. (A)
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