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Traffic calming

Here are entered works on the process of creating safer and more pedestrian-friendly streets by using physical measures such as changes in street alignment and installation of speed humps, chokers, raised sidewalks, etc., in combination with operational measures such as enhanced police enforcement, speed displays, and community speed watch programs, to alter motorist behavior.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Traffic engineering

• Calming, Traffic

• Cities Safer by Design: Guidance and Examples to Promote Traffic Safety Through Urban and Street Design (version 1.0; Washington: World Resources Institute, 2015), by Ben Welle, Qingnan Liu, Wei Li, Robin King, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Claudio Sarmiento, and Marta Obelheiro (PDF with commentary at wri.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1983), by Paul F. Barrett (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Expanding Metropolitan Highways: Implications for Air Quality and Energy Use (Special Report 245, 1995), by National Research Council Transportation Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Expanding Metropolitan Highways: Implications for Air Quality and Energy Use (Special Report 245, 1995), by National Research Council Transportation Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion (Special Report 242, 1994), by National Research Council Transportation Research Board and National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Traffic (2007), by Kenneth Goldsmith (HTML and PDF at Buffalo)

• Traffic Safety (2004), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)
• Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)
• Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Moving Ahead: 1991 Surface Transportation Legislation (OTA-SET-496; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• What Every Driver Must Know, by Michigan Department of State (PDF at michigan.gov)

• Traffic Safety (2004), by Leonard Evans (HTML at scienceservingsociety.com)

• Explanatory Modeling of Transbay Travel Choice (BART Impact Program working paper; 1977), by Henry Fan and Alistair Sherret
  • original October publication: multiple formats at archive.org
  • November revised version: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Urban Travel Demand: A Behavioral Analysis, by Thomas A. Domencich and Daniel L. McFadden (PDF files at Berkeley)

• Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (open access edition; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Govind Gopakumar (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Cities Safer by Design: Guidance and Examples to Promote Traffic Safety Through Urban and Street Design (version 1.0; Washington: World Resources Institute, 2015), by Ben Welle, Qingnan Liu, Wei Li, Robin King, Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Claudio Sarmiento, and Marta Obelheiro (PDF with commentary at wri.org)
• Survive the Drive: A Guide to Keeping Everyone on the Road Alive (second edition; Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and Virginia Tech Publishing, c2020), by Thomas A. Dingus, contrib. by Mindy Buchanan-King (multiple formats with commentary at vt.edu)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Every Driver Must Know, by Michigan Department of State (PDF at michigan.gov)

• Handbook for a Field Research Program for Driver's License Law Enforcement: User Guidelines and Handbook (DOT HS-800 842; Washington: US Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1973), by John P. McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Commonwealth ex Rel. James Todd, vs. the Allegheny Bridge Co'y: Quo Warranto, Brief for Defendant (ca. 1850), by Allegheny Bridge Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paper Book of the Defendants: Commonwealth vs. the President, Managers and Company, For Erecting a Bridge Over the Allegheny River, Opposite the City of Pittsburgh, in the County of Allegheny (ca. 1850), by Allegheny Bridge Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pedal Power: A Legal Guide for Oregon Bicyclists, by Ray Thomas (PDF at stc-law.com)