Speed management safety site launched for transport planners

Speeding causes many road crashes – and this is the motivation behind a new, free digital tool from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The Speed Management for Safety interactive website provides an overview of available resources for evaluating, designing, implementing and enforcing safe speeds, and covers such areas as creating a speed management initiative and road design. It also hosts a community portal where transport professionals can post questions and case studies or just talk to p
January 31, 2019 Read time: 2 mins
Speeding causes many road crashes – and this is the motivation behind a new, free digital tool from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).


The Speed Management for Safety interactive website provides an overview of available resources for evaluating, designing, implementing and enforcing safe speeds, and covers such areas as creating a speed management initiative and road design.

It also hosts a community portal where transport professionals can post questions and case studies or just talk to peers about speed management issues. Participation is open to non-members as well as those who belong to the ITE.

"Higher than desired speeds are a critical factor in many crashes, resulting in fatalities and serious injuries, particularly those involving vulnerable users, such as pedestrians and bicyclists," said Jeff Lindley, ITE chief technical officer. "This resource hub helps transportation professionals gain easy access to tools needed to design and operate roadway facilities to achieve desired speeds."

The site was developed with funding from the Road to Zero Coalition, which aims to eliminate road-related fatalities in the US by 2050.

It forms part of ITE’s wider work on speed management as a way of creating safer roads. The organisation held a national workshop on the subject last November in New York City, with its partner the Vision Zero Network.

• For more information on the new resource hub, go to %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 link-external www.ite.org/technical-resources/topics/speed-management-for-safety false http://www.ite.org/technical-resources/topics/speed-management-for-safety false false%>

Enforcement

Related Content

  • Dyson scraps EV project
    October 16, 2019
    British technology company Dyson has pulled out of a project to build electric vehicles (EVs), saying it is unable to make its car “commercially viable”. Chief executive Sir James Dyson said in a statement: “We have been through a serious process to find a buyer for the project which has, unfortunately, been unsuccessful so far.” The company, known primarily for its vacuum cleaners, says it will continue its £2.5 billion investment programme into new technology in two UK locations and in Singapore. It wil
    Read More
  • A view of mobility for the next generation
    March 10, 2017
    We wanted to know what mobility will look like for the next generation, so we asked those who would be shaping and using it – the next generation themselves. A group of students studying under Professor Dr Regine Gerike at Technical University Dresden gave us a wide range of stimulating responses. See our website for the full discussion:
    Read More
  • Econolite hires ex-Michigan DoT boss Kirk Steudle
    October 23, 2018
    Econolite has hired one of the best-known names in the ITS industry: Kirk Steudle is joining the company with a remit to fulfil two key roles. Steudle, the former director of Michigan Department of Transportation (MDoT), will be senior vice president, leading Econolite’s Transportation Systems Group and also in charge of CAVita, its connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AV) subsidiary. His responsibilities will include all C/AV projects and large-scale systems projects. Steudle had spent his entire
    Read More
  • Webinar: developments in driver assistance systems
    February 2, 2015
    The webinar on 6 February from 1400-1500 CET, From Advanced Active Safety Systems to Automated Systems: From interactIVe to AdaptIVe and beyond focuses on the evolution from driver assistance systems to automated driving. This is based mainly on two large scale EU integrated projects: interactIVe and AdaptIVe. The webinar will discuss the interactIVe project, its objectives, main outcomes and lessons learned and provide an overview of the objectives and vision of automated driving functions that will be
    Read More

Highlighted Content