Traffic calming

This article deals with traffic calming. For traffic-calmed areas see traffic-calmed areas

Various traffic calming measures in the inner city area

The term traffic calming refers to measures to displace the non-neighborhood and slow down the remaining motorized traffic in order to increase the traffic safety and quality of the residential area.

aims

The development and implementation of traffic calming measures pursues the following objectives, summarized in the essential core:

1. Improvement of the traffic conditions for all road users
2. Improvement of the quality of the living environment
3. Improvement of the location quality of retail and service companies

activities

The number of traffic calming measures is large and often also depends on country-specific requirements and experience. The following list is intended to provide a structured overview of the various measures without claiming to be exhaustive.

• Traffic law measures
  Traffic law measures form a broad field and range from the ordering of local speed restrictions to the introduction of certain traffic regulations, such as one-way streets or right-to-left . It is also possible to completely block the street for normal cars in favor of pedestrians by designating a pedestrian area or for local public transport by installing a bus lock .
• Measures over a
  large area The creation of measures over a large area is usually implemented by setting up pedestrian and meeting areas , so-called residential or play streets or 30 km / h zones .
• Structural measures
  Among the structural measures include any changes to the road itself. This includes, for example driving gas offsets (in connection with block parking ) Teilaufpflasterungen and speed bumps (jamb). Often the lanes or lanes are also made smaller and the side and sidewalk areas are enlarged.

See also

• Shared Space - In-depth approach to traffic calming
• Woonerf

Web links

Commons : traffic calming  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Further information on the topic at Umweltbundesamt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ADAC - term "traffic calming"
2. ^ ^{A b} Stefan Hügel: Third parties as affected by traffic calming measures . Duncker & Humblot Verlag, ISBN 3-428-07283-9 , p. 15 ff.