Effect Of Area Wide Traffic Calming In Japan: Accident And Socio-economic Studies Of Japanese "road-pia" Projects In 1980s
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
36
Pages
10
Published
1998
Size
1,032 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT980361
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
H. Yamanaka, Y. Yamaguchi & M. Tuchihashi
Abstract
This paper reviews the effect of area wide traffic calming schemes, road-pia concept projects, in Japan, from viewpoints of traffic safety and their socio- economic effectiveness. This paper assesses the Road-pia projects scheme compared with traffic calming in European countries, 30km-zone and 20mph zone. Comparisons of *before' and 'after' data for injury accidents for Road-pia scheme areas and control areas. Economic evaluation of the schemes is carried out, using cost benef
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