Killing Speed: A Good Practice Guide to Speed Management

© Slower Speeds Initiative 2001

CONTENTS

PREFACE: Lord Rogers of Riverside

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1: SPEED MATTERS

1.1 Benefits of lower speeds:

Casualty reduction
Benefits to children and young people
Restoring freedoms to communities
Economic benefits
Wider environmental benefits

2: LEGISLATION

2.1 Local Government and Rating Act 1997

2.2 Crime and Disorder Act 1998

2.3 Local Government Act 1999 (Best Value)

2.4 Local Government Act 2000

2.5 Transport Act 2000

2.6 References for Section 2

3: SPEED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

3.1 City of York – Speed Management Plan

3.2 Devon County Council – Speed Management Strategy

3.3 Gloucester Safer City – city-wide demonstration project

3.4 References for Section 3

4: SIGNING AND DESIGN FOR LOWER SPEEDS

4.1 Dorrington and Craven Arms, Shropshire – countdowns and cushions on a trunk road

4.2 West Lothian Council – gateway treatments and road narrowings

4.3 Norfolk County Council – interactive speed limit signs

4.4 Starston, Norfolk – speed reduction through design

4.5 Poundbury, Dorset – designing new urban spaces with a human scale

4.6 References for Section 4

5: INTRODUCING LOWER SPEED LIMITS

5.1 Suffolk County Council – village speed limit initiative

5.2 Oxfordshire County Council – 30mph limits

5.3 20mph zones

5.4 Scottish trial programme of advisory 20mph speed limits

5.5 Kingston Upon Hull – 20mph zones programme

5.6 City of Edinburgh Council – 20mph zones

5.7 Buxtehude, Germany – speed reduction through area-wide Tempo 30

5.8 References for Section 5

6: ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING

6.1 Speed cameras

6.2 Thames Valley Police – Safer Roads Partnership

6.3 Sussex Police – Commercial Operators Safer Transport Scheme (COSTS)

6.4 References for Section 6

7: COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

7.1 Audit Commission guidelines

7.2 Quiet Roads public engagement process
 

8.1 Variable speed limiters

8.2 European MASTER Project – speed limiter field trials

8.3 References for Section 8

Written by:Adrian Davis
Designed and edited by: John Hilary

Thanks to:

Chief Inspector Ian Brooks, Metropolitan Police
Eric Wyatt, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
Jeremy Phillips, Devon County Council
Members of the Slower Speeds Initiative Project Steering Group

Front cover photograph: © Ecoscene

The research and writing of this publication has been made possible by a grant from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund. It has been published with the help of the Countryside Agency, as part of its work to promote discussion of overall road speed hierarchies, including the status of minor roads and non-motorised travel.

See also:

• Order form for Killing Speed: A Good Practice Guide to Speed Management,  £10
• Slower Speeds Initiative Press Release announcing publication of Killing Speed
• Summary guide; also available as a printed 4 page leaflet

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