But when they are timed to improve traffic speeds or are missing, they can discourage pedestrian activity [ 45].
The effort improved traffic initially but slumped.
This perspective is, however, in sharp contrast to the views of other actors, who share a commitment to improve traffic safety through lower speed limits, thereby adopting what can be called a traffic safety perspective.
The tussle over traffic and road restriping blew open in May, when Bonin, working with the city's Department of Transportation, implemented a new initiative aimed at slowing vehicle speeds, improving traffic safety and offering greater transportation options in Playa del Rey.
To uniform traffic flow, and to improve traffic mobility and safety, variable speed limit (VSL) is usually implemented on freeways.
According to the planners, these citizens cannot be viewed as being opposed to "reduced mobility" but rather in firm support of measures to improve traffic safety, specifically including lower speed limits.
But the project, primarily intended to improve traffic flow, has fallen somewhat short of its anti-gridlock goals: Traffic speeds slowed on Eighth and Ninth Avenues and on many crosstown streets.
As one who often drives the stretch of Interstate 95 from Branford toward the Rhode Island border, permit me to make a suggestion for improving traffic flow, especially with the new 65 mile-an-hour speed limit.
The models examined in this study are widely used traffic control strategies which are proven to improve traffic conditions by increasing the capacity utilization, namely ramp metering control, variable speed limit control, and model predictive control.
Here the basic tenet is that speed limits are a crucial component in on-going efforts to improve traffic safety on local and regional roads.
MTA officials also laid out alternatives for improving traffic from Alhambra to La Cañada with express buses, expanded light rail and improved streets and speed controls.
