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Comprehensive Framework For Speed-Zone Guidelines, Joseph Shrestha, Pramen P. Shrestha Jul 2016

Comprehensive Framework For Speed-Zone Guidelines, Joseph Shrestha, Pramen P. Shrestha

Joseph Shrestha

Speeding is often considered as one of the major reasons of traffic crashes. As a result, State Departments of Transportations (DOTs) receive requests from communities to decrease speed limits in towns along rural highways. Such requests, coupled with the lack of proper manuals, have forced state DOTs to reduce the speed limits. A proper speed-zone manual is required to establish consistent speed zones across a state. This paper reviewed the literature on speed, crashes, enforcement techniques, and speed-zone manuals. A nationwide survey was conducted to identify various factors affecting the decisions of speed zones establishing. This paper identified best practices …

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The Dangers Of Automobile Travel: A Reconsideration, Roger Roots Nov 2007

The Dangers Of Automobile Travel: A Reconsideration, Roger Roots

Roger Roots

America's reliance on automobile transportation has attracted the scorn of academics for decades. Automobiles, it is said, are dangerous to life and limb, environmentally unfriendly, and wasteful of space and resources. Moreover, say the critics, automobiles produce inefficient individualistic social behavior that balkanizes com munities and shatters the otherwise cohesive nature of American life. This article examines the costs and benefits of U.S. automobile travel from a historic perspective. First, it compares the safety of automobile travel with the horse and steam-powered travel that preceded it. It then briefly addresses the changes wrought by American automobiles in terms of their …

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