During 1990, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea received requests for action to resolve traffic problems in 59 residential areas. A study was commissioned to: (a) identify residential areas suitable for consideration as traffic calming cells; and (b) produce a methodology for ranking. The study was to be completed by mid March 1991. Definitions were needed and are given for "residential area", "cell" and "traffic calming". The ranking methodology is described, which included: assessing safety and risk in general terms, speed rating, use of historical accident records, assessing architectural benefit, assessing environmental benefits, and weighting of cells. The study showed that a methodological approach can highlight the most worthwhile areas for traffic calming at reasonable levels of resource input. Furthermore that a method can be devised wherein the conclusions are not excessively vulnerable to variations in weighting.
Samenvatting