Critically Assess Literature Surrounding Vehicle Speed Reduction Techniques And Shared Spaces

The author Jeff Speck is city planner and an urban designer. He is trying to save Americans lives by trying to make the city more walkable since automobiles have now become a great danger to the Americans. This book is more concerned with cars and buildings in order to achieve the goal of a walkable city. People are the lifeblood of the city and not cars therefore, in order to pull off the feat of ushering America to the urban century, there is need to prove to people that walkability is important and also that their actions and decisions will help will to improve this aspect.

vehicles parked in the streets and in driveways. Sidewalks line the streets with people walking to

For several decades, societies have been impacted in their daily lives by the constant advancement in technology. With the reliance on automobiles and the fascination to travel, one of the major influences in the United States has been the Interstate Highway System. The American life has formed the societies’ norms, values, and beliefs around the use of the Interstate Highway System since it was first built in 1956. The Interstate Highway System has provided Americans a method to travel from one destination to another, which has lead to a much simpler life. (Hall, J., & Hall, L.).

The authors seem to be targeting city planners and prospective car buyers in the article. It goes on to explain, “There is also growing interest in the impacts on road networks operations among transportation planners and road

This essay will compare and contrast Buchanan, an engineer who reproduced a report on 'traffic in towns' and the Dutch engineer Monderman's ideas of 'shared space' by looking at the strengths and weaknesses of their research and what differences and similarities they have to each other using examples to reinforce the information.

The purpose was to design towns in a way that there could be an access for a lot of motor vehicles and at the same time sufficient level of life in towns (Silva, 2009). In this report Buchanan’s idea was to keep separate ‘working, shopping and leisure form the ‘corridors’ where the traffic would move’ (as cited in Silva, 2009). At this point there was a choice between not allowing any more cars in towns and just reconstructing them. After the mid-1960s, in towns started a separation of people from the vehicles. Sometimes it was very strict, when people where pushed away in residential blocks (Silva, 2009). In Buchanan’s Report traffic has a dynamic role in shaping the way places are designed, the way people live and interact with each other and also with surroundings. He looks at the traffic as something dangerous and because of that it needs to be separated and restricted by rules forced through visible displays in space. His report was accepted by public. Later government commissioned work and its way of road planning has influenced almost half a century of road design in England. There was a privilege for motor vehicles and pedestrians with cyclist were marginalised (Silva, 2009).

In addition, an event-based and laneway revitalisation project by City of Sydney, the Laneway by George! Hidden Networks 2009. This event curated eight interconnected lanes alongside George Street with a setting of an outdoor public installation, that encourages dialogue about public space and social interaction through a laneway (Natalie Ward,

After identifying 3 roadways with high levels of congestion, 8 living spaces (4 apartments and 4 parks) less than half a mile from these routes were selected and defined as “red” locations. Additionally, eight living spaces (4 apartments and 4 parks) directly located along roadways with normal congestion were selected as controls and defined as “green” locations. For the purpose of this experiment, roadways with normal levels of congestion were defined as any route that was not included in TRIP’s survey of the most congested roadways in Philadelphia.

The development of every nation hinges on the effectiveness of their transportation systems. Movement of goods, services and people to and from work is made possible by transportation systems. The importance of effective transportation systems cannot be over-emphasized. A lot of countries are facing Transportation problems and my country Ghana is no exception. A trip of about 30 minutes can take about an hour or more due to traffic jams. This is seriously impacting productivity and has been a topical issue in the country. The situation is the same in Uganda where I currently work. To this end, Transportation Engineers are needed to design roads/ highways that will stand the test of time, plan effective traffic management systems to reduce travel

As we can see, each street is similar in various aspects and are designed and structured to cater and favour a specific type of person, business or activity and its material things corroborate such a process by subjectively or objectively embedding certain social patterns which will then be adopted by their

Another strategy developed by Metrro focused solely on developing streets and highways, adding lanes and reducing congestion. This strategy largely focuses on the need to then build a larger network of streets between the main and local streets. There is also the possibility of adding lanes to highways to reduce congestion and produce a faster commute time. This strategy would help create jobs and improve access to goods and services, which would boost business revenue. There would also be an improved response time for emergency personal and vehicles (Metro.17) Drawbacks include the fact that this strategy may in fact create more congestion than relieve it, thus continue to concentrate air toxins in major travel corridors.(Metro.17). There

This research paper will look at social norms and behavioural patterns in different metropolitan environments among various different groups of road users, paying special attention to how these groups interact with one another. My chosen method of research for this study was participant observation. The observations were done at three different commercial intersections within Metro Vancouver, located in areas of varying population density and exhibiting different physical characteristics.

A general impact which is possible to observe and experience in a short period, developed by road infrastructure and road transportation system is the environmental impact. road infrastructure and Transportation development brings parallel changes to the environment. Mobilization demand of road infrastructure and transportation of urban areas to the rural areas by the passenger freights are eventually linked to the international market. Road infrastructure and road Transportation has become a numerous part of the society which is also considered as the main element of the development. Road infrastructure and Transportation has a grand influence on human choices like, urbanization. Extensive development of road infrastructure influences the people to choose the different place to live, establish their business, leisure travel, shopping and vacations etc, which directly helps a country to develop different parts of a country that helps to parallel development (Kulash 1999, 4.) Environmental impacts of the road infrastructure and

The objective of this paper is to understand the modes of road transportation, the role of road transportation in urban areas, the role of transportation infrastructure in

• Road user and worker safety and accessibility should be an integral and highpriority element of every project from planning through design and construction. Road user movement should be inhibited as little as practical.