This paper was presented at the "Cities, towns and traffic" session. These proceedings are available on CD-ROM. This paper explores the relationship between the traffic calming and crime prevention domains as it relates to neighbourhood-level community improvement projects. While the two activities often share common solutions, this is certainly not always the case. Differring goals and criteria used to select specific techniques and the locations where they should be applied may result in conflicting elements that then must be rationalized in some kind of a trade-off analysis. Worse still, designing for only one side of this equation may result in solutions that seriously compromise the interests of the other. The paper begins with a brief review of the principles that underlie both traffic calming studies and CPTED techniques as applied to the neighbourhood crime prevention problem. This review - and discussion drawn from key literature in the fields of interest - provides the basis for the development of a functional comparison matrix - a straightforward analysis that helps identify areas and techniques of common interest; areas and techniques that may result in conflicting solutions; and non-overlapping elements. This matrix is used to design a common planning framework that addresses the needs of both technical domains and provides engineers, planners, and criminologists with a common ground for developing integrated solutions that best meet the community's needs and values. A concluding section discusses the practical application of this framework including the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as an integrated analysis tool. (A)
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