Majer, S.; Sołowczuk, A. Traffic Calming Measures and Their Slowing Effect on the Pedestrian Refuge Approach Sections. Sustainability2023, 15, 15265.
Majer, S.; Sołowczuk, A. Traffic Calming Measures and Their Slowing Effect on the Pedestrian Refuge Approach Sections. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15265.
Majer, S.; Sołowczuk, A. Traffic Calming Measures and Their Slowing Effect on the Pedestrian Refuge Approach Sections. Sustainability2023, 15, 15265.
Majer, S.; Sołowczuk, A. Traffic Calming Measures and Their Slowing Effect on the Pedestrian Refuge Approach Sections. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15265.
Abstract
Abstract: The ever-increasing use of motor vehicles causes a number of traffic safety and community issues, which are particularly severe in cities, accompanied with scarcity of parking spaces and challenges encountered in the road layout alteration projects. The commonly applied solutions include designation of through streets and implementation of on-street parking on residential streets and retrofitted traffic calming measures (TCMs). This article presents the results of the study conducted on a two-way street where Metered Parking System MPS was implemented together with diagonal and parallel parking spaces, refuge islands, horizontal deflection and lane narrowing by a single-sided chicane. The aim of this study was to identify those TCMs that effectively helped to reduce the island approach speed. Heuristic method was applied to assess the effect of the respective TCMs on reducing the island approach speed and the key speed reduction determinants were defined using cause and effect diagram and Pareto chart. Comparative analyses were carried out to rate the respective TCMs as effective, moderately effective or ineffective. Section 1 of this article presents the output of the literature review on urban parking analyses and TCM efficacy. Section 2 presents the study site and the applied heuristic method. The study results are presented in Section 3. Section 3 defines the determinants on the cause and effect diagram and analyses the determinants using the Pareto chart. The final conclusions and comments are given in Section 5. Although the study was limited to a single street in Poland, the findings may hold true in other countries where similar TCMs are used.
Keywords
pedestrian refuges; refuge islands; speed variation; reduce speed; horizontal deflection; free view; Pareto chart; cause and effect diagram
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
Copyright:
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