Speed Management in Rural Roads in Greece

Setting reliable speed limits on roads has always been a challenging process of designers and road agencies. In this paper the results of a methodology for setting speed limits on rural roads of all categories in Greece is presented based on international research and an extensive drivers attitudes＇...

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Published in:Tu mu gong cheng yu jian zhu 2012-09, Vol.6 (9), p.1083-1092
Main Author: Basil Psarianos Nikiforos Stamatiadis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
事故发生率
公路网络
农村公路
希腊
管理
车速限制
速度限制
高速公路
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Summary:Setting reliable speed limits on roads has always been a challenging process of designers and road agencies. In this paper the results of a methodology for setting speed limits on rural roads of all categories in Greece is presented based on international research and an extensive drivers attitudes＇ survey. The 85th percentile speed has proven in this case to be the decisive criterion for establishing reliable speed limits or advisory speeds in most cases. The resulted 10 km/la increase in legal speed limits on freeways and express rural highways did not validate any fears that accident rates or frequencies would increase. On the contrary an 8% decrease of crashes was observed in a period of about three years after the implementation of the increased speed limits level on the rural highway network of the country.
ISSN:1934-7359
1934-7367
DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2012.09.001