These documents briefly present the effects of traffic-calming measures on road safety, air quality, environmental noise and active transportation. Each of these documents presents the mechanisms of action underlying traffic-calming strategies, the results of evaluative studies and their implications for public health actors.
They are available in English and in
French at:
-Urban Traffic Calming and Road Safety: Effects and Implications for
Practice.
http://www.ncchpp.ca/175/publications.ccnpps?id_article=719
-Urban Traffic Calming and Air Quality:
Effects and Implications for Practice
http://www.ncchpp.ca/175/Publications.ccnpps?id_article=751
-Urban Traffic Calming and Environmental
Noise: Effects and Implications for Practice
http://www.ncchpp.ca/175/Publications.ccnpps?id_article=753
-Urban Traffic Calming and Active
Transportation: Effects and Implications for Practice
http://www.ncchpp.ca/175/Publications.ccnpps?id_article=794
The literature review is also available
in English and in French at:
http://www.ncchpp.ca/175/Publications.ccnpps?id_article=686
You can also find other traffic calming
resources at:
http://www.ncchpp.ca/174/news.ccnpps
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Phone : 514-864-1600, ext. 3613
Email : marianne.jacques@inspq.qc.ca