Public Acceptance Survey for Evaluation of Traffic Calming Prioritization Process

Abstract

Traffic calming means engineering and several other techniques introduced on roads to reduce speed and number of motor vehicle. Traffic calming project prioritization is a system or process developed to rank streets for phasing projects. Four factors/attributes are identified in this research regarding traffic safety concerns namely vehicle speed, vehicular volume/width of street (per unit time), side walk condition and pedestrian generations. A questionnaire survey was conducted to four residential areas near to the top four priority streets based on their severity in terms of traffic safety concerns. Binary Logistic Regression analysis was employed to reveal the residents level of conformity with the prioritization process. The objective of this research is to explore residents' compliance with the prioritization process. Resident's approval with the street's priority increases the probability to agree with the priority ranking system. Result provides important variables of group of residents who agreed with the prioritization system.