Safety Papers
(LTP) Local Traffic Performance design strategy and instrument.
Albert Jansen
Summary: Urban planners and traffic engineers do not always work as well together as we would like. To improve cooperation, the Local Traffic Performance (LTP) project tries to integrate the planning practices from both disciplines. LTP stimulates closer collaboration between urban and transport planners through mutual consultation and by means of mutual use of computational models. Local Traffic Performance is an instrument for smart planning of transport infrastructure, and residential and zoning plan areas. Its aim is to reduce energy use in traffic and transport. It can be deployed at a local level by municipalities. LTP can also serve to enhance traffic safety, to increase the quality of urban development and to decrease noise emissions. LTP shows the consequences of spatial policy for new housing and reconstruction developments to all involved stakeholders already during the process of decision making. In short, LTP is a methodology for smart planning processes and uses modelling as a tool. This paper describes the new instrument and its first results. Transport accounts for about 50 percent of the energy consumption of the average Dutch household. A study by Janse (1997) into the relationship between environmental planning and energy consumption in traffic and transport indicates that environmental planning considerably influences energy consumption in traffic and transport. The study shows that various planning aspects on different scale levels influence energy consumption. In Figure 1 the influence is shown as the reduction in energy use that can be achieved by dedicated policies and as increases in energy use when no clear policies are developed. ... More
2009 Benchmarking
Understanding the characteristics, needs and abilities of walkers | Jim Walker, Walk21
Summary: The project aims to implement a common practical international measuring tool for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative and qualitative information to help define and benchmark walkability; compare results; and monitor the impact and effectiveness of further investment. ... More
A Complete Street by any other Name is just as Sweet
April Bertelsen, City of Portland Bureau of Transportation
Summary: The Portland Oregon Story. ... More
A Continuous Pedestrian Network
Mayer Hillman
Summary: There is considerable evidence indicating that the wider public interest is better served when journeys are made on foot rather than by motorised means. For this reason, there is a strong case for re-ordering existing transport priorities in favour of pedestrians. ... More
A decision tool for improving road safety for pedestrians
Maurizio Tira, Chiara Bresciani and Francesca Costa, University of Brescia
Summary: Assesses the use of typical accident scenarios implemented in a user friendly e-book, in order to study appropriate recommendation to prevent the specific type of accident. The paper aims to present the structure of a proposed e-book, showing the decision tree that leads users to one or several solution proposals for a given safety problem. After a brief presentation of the tool, the results of the assessment with technical staff of several cities in Europe will be reported in the paper. ... More
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