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New Plan for Lahore

 Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) and Traffic Engineering and Planning
Agency (TEPA) have jointly displayed speed limit messages on 10 main roads of
Lahore.
 PSCA is displaying the speed-limit messages on its video messaging service
screens installed throughout the metropolis.
 Speed Monitoring Radars: placed all over the city on main roads in next step to
regulate traffic
 e-Challans: For speeding and other traffic violations. The challans will be
dispatched to the house addresses of the traffic violators
 Speed-Limit Message Boards: Displayed on Canal Road, The Mall, Ferozepur
Road, Jail Road, Allama Iqbal Road, Molana Shoukat Ali Road, Main Boulevard,
Peco Road, Raiwind Road and Defense Road

The heavy and light traffic vehicles speed limit:

 On Canal Road: 50kph and 70kph

 On the rest of the roads: 40kph and 60kph

General Overview of Speed Reduction

Lowering of speed limits in urban areas:

 A relatively low-cost measure or road safety

 Negative impact on fast mobility

The Speed-Accident Relationship:

 Speeding as number one road safety problem in most countries around the
world
 Reductions in average speeds of approximately 5 per cent would mean a
reduction in fatalities by as much as 20 per cent
  even modest speed reductions can prevent the occurrence of collisions and
significantly reduce the outcomes of those crashes that do occur

Other potential benefits by speed limit reductions in urban areas:

 Increase in traffic flow and consequent reduction in congestion and
delays
 Increase in traffic flow particularly where the roads are functioning at
near capacity
 Reduction in vehicle operating costs with less wear and greater energy
(fuel) efficiency
 Less pollution and noise

Speed Management:

 Effective speed limits must be compatible with the design speed of the road
 The design speed of the road tends to have a greater effect on a driver’s choice
of speed than the actual speed limit

Speed limits are most often set in accordance with three main principles:

 Adapting the speed limit to actual speed levels

 Varying the speed limit to the standard and design of the road
 Choosing a speed limit that minimizes the total costs to society (e.g. accident
costs, travel time costs, vehicle operating costs, road maintenance costs, and
environmental costs)

 Younger and inexperienced drivers tend to overestimate their own skills and
underestimate potential hazards. It is a fair assumption that if posted speed signs
did not exist; many drivers would adopt unsuitably high speeds.

Operational measures used to slow traffic:

 Multi-way stops or yield signs

 Traffic signals
 Turn prohibitions
 One-way streets
The Relationship between Travel Time, Speed Limits, Speeding Behavior and
Safety

 Maintaining short headways

 Changing lanes
 Other aggressive behaviors such as accelerating hard to beat traffic lights and
other stops

 The relationship between speed limits and travel time is far more complex than
most drivers are willing to admit.

How much additional time is needed for a 10 kilometer journey when the average
speed is reduced by 5 km/h??? Only 16 seconds with a reduction of 110 to 105 km/h
and 80 seconds with a reduction of 50 to 45 km/h.

 Across all studies, the total effect of reducing or introducing a speed limit is a
reduction in accident frequency by 13 per cent. This level of effect can be acheived
where there is an average speed reduction of 11 km/h.

 Larger percentage of speed reductions can turn fatal accidents into injury
accidents, and injury accidents into property damage accidents only.
 For higher speeds, a reduction from approximately 110-115 km/h to
approximately 88-97 km/h is predicted to reduce fatalities crashes by up to 54
per cent and reduce injury crashes by up to 6 per cent.
 For lower speed limits the ratio is approximately 2:1 between fatal and injury
crashes.

Comparing the Costs and Benefits of Lowered Speed Limits

Important points

 Lowered average travel speeds brought about by a reduction in speed limits in

urban and metropolitan areas will bring about considerable reductions in road
trauma
  A relatively minor impact on average travel times (mobility) will occur at the
individual level; at the societal level there are likely to be overall benefits
depending on how values are assigned to travel time increases
 Achieving community acceptance and support for speed limit reductions is
critical as is the need to encourage better safety awareness by changing
attitudes toward speeding and giving greater consideration to the needs of less
prioritized road users
 Vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists) are likely to benefit most from
reductions in average travel speeds
 Lowered speed limits encourage better and safer forms of interaction between
different types of road users which in turn should lead to a more attractive and
livable environment
 Lowered average travel speeds should bring about an increase in energy
efficiency with a corresponding reduction in fuel consumption and vehicle
running costs, and a reduction in vehicle emissions (Greenhouse gases) and
noise; for this to be achieved it is important

Speed limit chart here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_by_country