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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 - I think Rob's point is that you are continuing to confuse feet with metres.


    I am pleased that my attempt to return this thread to the original topic has renewed interest, but we are still off topic. The original topic was the psychology of why people speed and what we can do about it. It is about education, observation, information for motorists, in simple terms that they can respond to. There is simply no need to go into intense theory of kinetic energy, or the like. As Rob says, we know what kinetic energy is but it is not relevant to this discussion.


    Notwithstanding that, it looks as though I am going to need to justify some points about coefficient of friction, a much more relevant point to this topic. Watch this space.
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  • Benyamin - I think Rob's point is that you are continuing to confuse feet with metres.


    I am pleased that my attempt to return this thread to the original topic has renewed interest, but we are still off topic. The original topic was the psychology of why people speed and what we can do about it. It is about education, observation, information for motorists, in simple terms that they can respond to. There is simply no need to go into intense theory of kinetic energy, or the like. As Rob says, we know what kinetic energy is but it is not relevant to this discussion.


    Notwithstanding that, it looks as though I am going to need to justify some points about coefficient of friction, a much more relevant point to this topic. Watch this space.
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