Speed Management Measures
Speed Management Measures
The Think! Norfolk Partnership employs a wide range of speed management measures to reduce traffic speed where there are safety concerns. They can help to:-
- Reduce road accident casualties, particularly to vulnerable road users
- Enhance quality of life in communities by reducing intimidation due to inappropriate traffic speeds
Available tools range from education campaigns and flashing reminder signs, to engineering the road itself to prevent unsafe speeds, to enforcing the speed limit by fining or prosecuting speeders.
Speed management measures must be cost effective and appropriate to the location. Permanent measures are expensive to construct and maintain. Measures which rely on high visual impact can be detrimental to the street environment and tend to lose their effectiveness as drivers become habituated to seeing them.
So where there are high levels of public concern about speeding but no associated casualty record, non-permanent measures (awareness raising/persuasion) can encourage drivers to take responsibility for their behaviour and modify their driving.
Where there is a recorded history of conflicts between pedestrians/cyclists and motorised traffic however, it is sometimes necessary to remove the element of choice and ensure that drivers slow down by re-engineering the highway and providing physical features. Where both very high speeds and accidents are occurring drivers can be fined or prosecuted.
To find out more about the various measures and what is appropriate in which circumstances please click on the items in the following list:-
