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?
The speed idiots are probebely young kids thinking they are immortal ,last time I was on a motorway everyone was doing 90
Actually it's become clear that (in the UK at least) there are two groups, one is young people, the other is professionals in their 40s and 50s. From the last information I saw (this is rather from memory) this was across all driving practices that lead to the most common accidents - speeding, phone use, and drink driving.
After all, if you're a senior engineering manager you're a terribly important, clever and experienced person who knows much more about how to drive safely than some government bureaucrat. I'm sure we all know colleagues like that, although not ourselves of course ?
The speed idiots are probebely young kids thinking they are immortal ,last time I was on a motorway everyone was doing 90
Actually it's become clear that (in the UK at least) there are two groups, one is young people, the other is professionals in their 40s and 50s. From the last information I saw (this is rather from memory) this was across all driving practices that lead to the most common accidents - speeding, phone use, and drink driving.
After all, if you're a senior engineering manager you're a terribly important, clever and experienced person who knows much more about how to drive safely than some government bureaucrat. I'm sure we all know colleagues like that, although not ourselves of course ?
