Speed Management Guide – Sharing Good Practices in Road Safety Engineering

Friday, February 27, 2015

A guide about speed management, which will share good practices in road safety engineering, has been approved by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC).

The purpose of the guide is to provide information and tools to facilitate safer Canadian roadways through speed management.  The Speed Management Guide is part of TAC’s Canadian Road Safety Engineering Handbook, which includes a series of 10 books.

Developed through a volunteer committee comprised of TAC’s Road Safety Standing Committee representatives, the guide is intended for engineers and those responsible for roadway planning, design, operation and maintenance. It will focus on encouraging speeds that are compatible with the operating environment and reducing crash risk to all road users.

The guide was developed based on a jurisdictional survey distributed to Canadian traffic engineering practitioners in early 2012 that gathered information on speed limits, engineering approaches to speed management on new roads and in-service facilities, typical operating speeds, and automated enforcement. 

The guide will touch on various themes, including: 

  • Policies and issues on speed management
  • Canadian related speed crash data
  • The impact of speed on safety
  • Factors affecting speed choice
  • Setting speed limits
  • Speed as an element of road design
  • Engineering and speed management measures

Background

TAC’s Canadian Road Safety Engineering Handbook is comprised of a series of 10 books. Although each book is specifically designed to be self-contained, taken together they comprise a comprehensive, authoritative and highly complementary set of practical guidelines. Other books in the series provide information on subject areas such as road safety audits and applied human factors in road safety engineering. The handbook is intended to be a “living document”, which will be updated over time as knowledge and experience develop. 

A notice of publication will be posted to TAC’s website once the Speed Management Guide is available for sale in the Bookstore.

 

 


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