There have been many reports of motorists using the lack of traffic on the roads during the Covid19 lockdown to flout the speed limits and now with more traffic back on the roads there is a danger that some may continue to drive at excessive speeds even after things are back to ‘normal’.
Behavioural Science in transportation (understanding the behaviour and motivations of transport users such as motorists and rail commuters etc) is a fascinating subject which plays a big part in the engineering and design of roads and their ‘furniture’ in an attempt to gently persuade drivers to modify their driving behaviour to something more appropriate.
There are many such psychological tactics in place to combat speeding but could we be doing more? What other engineering solutions could be implemented to stop excessive speeding? How do different countries tackle speeding on their roads? What could we learn from them?
Thank you for your comments thus far with regards to; ‘what could be done to combat speeding on our roads?’ by Alan Stevens. This can be and is an emotive subject, yet very interesting. I am keeping notes of your comments to us as a question bank and hopefully they will prove very useful.
Benyamin, do you have a formula for aquaplaning. Being from the aviation sector we often use Horne’s Formula V = 9 x √P, which exists for calculating the minimum groundspeed for initiation of this of aquaplaning on a sufficiently wet runway based upon tyre pressure where V = groundspeed in knots and P = tyre inflation pressure in psi. The depth of water is > 3mm.
Thank you for your comments thus far with regards to; ‘what could be done to combat speeding on our roads?’ by Alan Stevens. This can be and is an emotive subject, yet very interesting. I am keeping notes of your comments to us as a question bank and hopefully they will prove very useful.
Benyamin, do you have a formula for aquaplaning. Being from the aviation sector we often use Horne’s Formula V = 9 x √P, which exists for calculating the minimum groundspeed for initiation of this of aquaplaning on a sufficiently wet runway based upon tyre pressure where V = groundspeed in knots and P = tyre inflation pressure in psi. The depth of water is > 3mm.
