The author has done studies of thirty access roads in residential areas with one family housing. This is the predominant (60%) housing type in Norway, but little or nothing is known of traffic behaviour. The aim was to find out about attitudes and behaviour in order to develop better road design. Four types of residental areas have been studied. All have about 30 houses along a road about 300 m of length, but the traffic road was dramatically different, from "no traffic" to large amounts of unwanted through traffic (average daily traffic (ADT) 20-5000). Various methods have been used: automatic and handheld radar, single and group interviews with children and adults, and professional evaluation of the development. evaluation of the development. A questionnaire that was distributed to a thousand households gave 791 replies.
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