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    1. A housing estate is experiencing high rates of road accidents and cut-through traffic. To address these issues, traffic calming strategies are proposed, including signs to discourage through traffic, speed humps and chicanes to slow vehicles, and closure of some roads to non-local traffic. 2. For areas with high residential density, strategies like reducing the speed limit, adding pedestrian signs and crosswalks, widening sidewalks, and designating home zones are recommended to improve safety.

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    1. A housing estate is experiencing high rates of road accidents and cut-through traffic. To address these issues, traffic calming strategies are proposed, including signs to discourage through traffic, speed humps and chicanes to slow vehicles, and closure of some roads to non-local traffic. 2. For areas with high residential density, strategies like reducing the speed limit, adding pedestrian signs and crosswalks, widening sidewalks, and designating home zones are recommended to improve safety.

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    1. A housing estate is experiencing high rates of road accidents and cut-through traffic. To address these issues, traffic calming strategies are proposed, including signs to discourage through traffic, speed humps and chicanes to slow vehicles, and closure of some roads to non-local traffic. 2. For areas with high residential density, strategies like reducing the speed limit, adding pedestrian signs and crosswalks, widening sidewalks, and designating home zones are recommended to improve safety.

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    1. A housing estate is experiencing high rates of road accidents and cut-through traffic. To address these issues, traffic calming strategies are proposed, including signs to discourage through traffic, speed humps and chicanes to slow vehicles, and closure of some roads to non-local traffic. 2. For areas with high residential density, strategies like reducing the speed limit, adding pedestrian signs and crosswalks, widening sidewalks, and designating home zones are recommended to improve safety.

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    FACULTY OF ENGENEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

    UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA

    SEMESTER I
    SESI 2016/2017

    SUBJECT: KKKA6743 URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND OPERATION


    ASSIGNMENT: TASK 7 Traffic Calming

    NAME
    SYAZA SYAHIRAH BINTI MEOR ZAINAL

    No Matric
    P86665

    Task 7 Traffic Calming


    One housing estate is experiencing high rate of road accident. In addition, the road network in
    the estate is used as an alternative route to an adjacent highway. You are required to give a short
    proposal to overcome both problems. Explain your proposal with appropriate sketches
    Introduction
    Traffic calming is a system of design and management strategies that aim to balance traffic on
    streets with other uses. It is founded on the idea that streets should help create and preserve a
    sense of place that their purpose is for people to walk, stroll, look, gaze, meet, play, shop and
    even work alongside cars but not dominated by them. The tools of traffic calming take a different
    approach from treating the street only as a conduit for vehicles passing through at the greatest
    possible speed. They include techniques designed to lessen the impact of motor vehicle traffic by
    slowing it down, or literally calming it. This helps build human-scale places and an
    environment friendly to people on foot.
    Problem
    1. Street with Cut Through Traffic (non-local land use trips) problem.
    Cut through traffic or thru traffic is using local streets in preference of arterial or
    collector streets in order to take shortcuts, avoided traffic jam at busy streets, traffic
    lights, congested intersections or streets with implemented traffic calming measures.
    Generally cut through traffic is called as non-lan use traffic or non-local traffic. Cut
    through traffic threatens the safety of vulnerable road-users in residential streets and
    neighborhoods also they have inverse environmental impacts such as air and noise
    pollution. Home owners and residents in local streets are major complainant of through
    traffic and regard it as a disruptive issue to their peace.
    It must take into account than Through Traffic is a safety problem in Local Streets and in
    Collector Streets due to their function, Through Traffic is not considered as a safety issue.

    Solution
    It has been proven that full closure as a volume control measure can exclude cut through traffic
    volume from residential streets but other criteria such as emergency access and vehicle turning
    must be considered. Signing can be implemented but their effectiveness is not measured.
    Deflection measures such speed humps and chicanes can make a slow point in meddle of streets
    and discourage drivers to use residential streets
    Stratergy

    Measures

    No Thru Traffic
    Signing and Pavement Signs
    Marking
    Resdeintial Traffic
    Signs

    Volume Control

    Vertical Deflection

    Horizontal Deflection

    Purpose
    warning drivers of entering residential streets
    Informing drivers of entering residential streets

    Full Closure

    Eliminate non-local traffic from entering


    residential streets

    Half Closure

    blocking the movement of wrong way from


    entering one-way streets

    Diagonal Diverter

    block through movement from entering local


    streets

    Speed Hump

    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic

    Speed Table

    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic

    Speed Cushion

    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic

    Chicane

    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic

    Lateral Shift

    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic

    Centeral Chicane
    Making slow points to discourage thru traffic
    http://www.ukm.my/calmsys/cut%20through%20problem.aspx
    2. Safety Problems for Area with High Residential Density
    Solutions for local streets with high residential density
    Reducing speed limit in street with high density can help drivers to pay more attention to their
    environment. Pedestrian signs must be installed in order to inform drivers about the presence of
    pedestrians. Constructing sidewalks and also implementing crosswalks are important
    infrastructure to accommodate residents and improve the safety of pedestrians. Furthermore
    sidewalk widening and streets caping strategies can encourage residents to use non-motorized
    transportation rather than private vehicles and discourage drivers from speeding. Moreover home

    zone scheme, which is considered as a psychological strategy can be implemented to provide a


    calm place for residents and persuade drivers to reduce their speed. Mentioned strategies for
    improving the safety of streets with high residential density are provided as follows:
    Strategy
    Infrastructure

    Measures

    Purpose

    Crosswalk

    Providing pedestrian crossing

    Sidewalk

    Constructing Sidewalk along streets

    Changes to Speed Speed Limit


    Limit
    Reduction

    Traffic Signs

    Reducing speed limit to 30 km/h in order to imporve the


    safety of road-usres

    Caution Sign

    warning drivers of pedestrians and residents

    Speed Limit
    Sign

    Posting appropriate speed limit

    Pedestrian Sign

    Warnign drivers of the presence of vulnerable road-users

    Residential Sign Promoting the residential aspect of streets


    Pavement
    Treatment
    Strategy

    Pavement
    Treatment

    Warning drivers of changes to traffic zone and alert


    drivers to vulnerable road-users

    Narrowing

    Sidewalk
    Widening

    Accommodate pedestrians walking on sidewalks

    Streetscaping
    Strategy

    Gateway

    promoting the identity and increase the awareness of


    drivers toward pedestrian activities

    providing a safe place for pedestrians, cyclists, children


    and residents by giving them the right of way
    http://www.ukm.my/calmsys/cut%20through%20problem.aspx
    Special Zone

    Home Zone

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