Vehicle Speed Considerations in Traffic Management: Development of a New Speed Monitoring Program

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• Creators:
  Karlaftis, MG ; Sinha, KC ; Jorgenson, Darren L.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway traffic control
  • Monitoring
  • Speed control
  • Federal aid highways
  • Monitoring
  • Speed
  • Speed control
  • Speed limits
  • State laws
  • Traffic control
• Series:
  Journal of Transportation and Statistics
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1501633
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Abstract:
  The federal speed monitoring program, established in 1974 and repealed in 1995, was primarily intended to provide reliable data for inclusion in states' annual certification for Federal Aid Highway Projects. The repeal of the program not only authorized states to set their own speed limits but also allowed them to develop their own speed monitoring program. A seven step framework for a speed monitoring program tailored to meet the needs of individual agencies using speed monitoring data at the state level is developed in this paper. This proposed plan distributes speed monitoring stations to highway classes according to three primary criteria: spatial distributions, crash distribution, and daily vehicle miles traveled (DVMT) distribution. A comparison is made between the proposed plan and the existing speed monitoring program.
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  urn:sha-512:e5701ea9ef963908301236fdebb261e2bf6542487e93262318b710882884457260b117b180a701863b3bf5a24fdc39588fe6bf6ca4279a17726efa9103f5016d