WEST PALM BEACH TRAFFIC CALMING: THE SECOND GENERATION

The Transportation Division of West Palm Beach city, Florida, is implementing innovative practices based on traffic calming, New Urbanism, and associated principles. In North America, the city's program can be considered "second generation traffic calming," prioritizing economic development, revitalization, aesthetics, pedestrian comfort and safety, and driver behavior modification, resulting in intense redevelopment activity. Other programs of the city, ranging from home ownership to facade enhancements, complement the program. This comprehensive, coordinated approach to city building has helped stabilize and revive the downtown and several "challenged" neighborhoods, while stimulating significant private investment. Traffic calming has become a normal component of these efforts.

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• Corporate Authors:Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW
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• Authors:
  • Stillings, T
  • Lockwood, I
• Publication Date: 2000-12

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• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 22 p.
• Monograph Title: URBAN STREET SYMPOSIUM: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, DALLAS, TEXAS, JUNE 28-30, 1999
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: E-C019
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

  Subject/Index Terms

  • TRT Terms:Aesthetics; Behavior modification; Central business districts; Drivers; Economic development; Investments; Neighborhoods; Pedestrian safety; Private enterprise; Redevelopment; Traffic calming; Urban renewal
  • Geographic Terms:West Palm Beach (Florida)
  • Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control;

  Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00812423
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: E-C019,, Paper A-1, Paper A-2
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date:Jun 6 2001 12:00AM

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