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What could be done to combat speeding on our roads?



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? 

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  • Benyamin Davodian:

    Dear Rob, 

    I do not know how you calculated. Probably not understood. I suggest you again check you yourself because you mislead everyone

    This is kinetic energy (180 kinetic energy requirements + 88 meters response time = 268 meters). 
    Distance difference from 100 km / h (real world test)


    My dear Rob, you should check yourself where you went wrong.


    Sorry, Benyamin but I agree with Rob. Per your earlier post, braking distance from 30 miles per hour is 45 feet not metres. 60 mph is 88 feet (not metres) per second.


    As I said earlier, mixing of imperial and metric units leads to confusion.


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  • Benyamin Davodian:

    Dear Rob, 

    I do not know how you calculated. Probably not understood. I suggest you again check you yourself because you mislead everyone

    This is kinetic energy (180 kinetic energy requirements + 88 meters response time = 268 meters). 
    Distance difference from 100 km / h (real world test)


    My dear Rob, you should check yourself where you went wrong.


    Sorry, Benyamin but I agree with Rob. Per your earlier post, braking distance from 30 miles per hour is 45 feet not metres. 60 mph is 88 feet (not metres) per second.


    As I said earlier, mixing of imperial and metric units leads to confusion.


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