Publication: Guide for Safe Speeds: Managing Traffic Speeds to Save Lives and Improve Livability
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2024-03-20
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2024-03-20
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Effectively managing traffic speeds is one of the most complex road safety challenges. To meet it, countries need to have key institutional and organizational arrangements in place, and to adopt and fund a systematic, evidence-based approach to speed management. To sustain speed management efforts and interventions, countries should develop a speed management strategy that aligns management activities across key institutions and organizations. A strategy also helps ensure robust and consistent speed limit setting and prioritizes changes with the greatest road safety impact. This guide can help governments at all levels develop speed management strategies that work.
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“Turner, Blair M.; Eichinger-Vill, Eva M.; El-Samra, Siba; Adriazola-Steil, Claudia; Burlacu, Alina F.. 2024. Guide for Safe Speeds: Managing Traffic Speeds to Save Lives and Improve Livability. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41240 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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