What your traffic engineer can do for you...
What your traffic engineer can do for you...
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I've been asked to speak on this topic at a highway safety conference this fall. I'd say the attendence is roughly 45% traffic enforcement, 45% traffic safety educators/advocates, and maybe 10% engineers. The description they are putting in the program is:
What Your Traffic Engineer Can Do for You
Historically, there has been a divide between engineering and the other sections of highway safety. This presentation discusses the capabilities and limitations of highway safety engineering as well as what enforcement and safety advocates can do to help. Some of the tools and techniques that engineers can apply to a problem will be discussed, as well as myths and realities that engineers face on a regular basis.
Anybody have suggestions, pet peeves, war stories, etc, they'd like to share?
What Your Traffic Engineer Can Do for You
Historically, there has been a divide between engineering and the other sections of highway safety. This presentation discusses the capabilities and limitations of highway safety engineering as well as what enforcement and safety advocates can do to help. Some of the tools and techniques that engineers can apply to a problem will be discussed, as well as myths and realities that engineers face on a regular basis.
Anybody have suggestions, pet peeves, war stories, etc, they'd like to share?
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RE: What your traffic engineer can do for you...
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I also want to talk baout what we can do, like analyzing crash patterns to find contributing factors, curve signs to guide traffic around curves and reduce run-off-road crashes, signal retiming for safety and operations benefits, etc.
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys typing on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
- Blair Houghton
RE: What your traffic engineer can do for you...
I've always considered this to be a fundamentally good idea, and something that, by reducing insurance payouts (through making other people liable for the expenses), something that can benefit a broad spectrum of society.
RE: What your traffic engineer can do for you...
mention that traffic engineers can advise on the suitability of designs for parking lots, loading docks, fire truck access , driveways, school pedestrian routes, and school pickup zones.
mention that traffic engineers can get a traffic light fixed faster if given specific information when reporting a traffic signal problem ( time of day, direction , color & location of light, etc)
mention that speed humps are not a suitable solution to speeding