Traffic Calming Onboarding

Urban SDK enables your agency with modern data tools to identify roadways that qualify for traffic calming prior to complaints and cut back on unnecessary expenses. 

1. Addressing speeding complaints

2. Identifying speeding hotspots

3. Summarizing safety trends

4. Summarizing safety trends

5. Reducing staff hours 

What is Traffic Calming

Traffic calming is a set of strategies and roadway design measures aimed at reducing speeds, discouraging cut-through traffic, and improving pedestrian/bike safety.

Before Urban SDK

80% of traffic calming requests are perception issues and never meet local ordinance or criteria standards. Collecting manual data, which is wrong 80% of the time, is a massive drain on resources and budgets. With Urban SDK, the agency now has the ability to identify roadways that qualify for traffic calming prior to complaints and cut back on 80% of the historical data collected previously. 

Key Elements

• Speed reduction (speed humps, narrowed lanes, raised crosswalks)
• Volume control (diverters, chicanes, road diets)
• Safety improvements (visibility, pedestrian islands, crash reduction)
• Livability goals (community-friendly streetscapes)

Common Devices

• Speed humps/cushions/tables
• Curb extensions (bulb-outs)
• Chicanes and serpentine curves
• Roundabouts and mini-circles
• Raised crosswalks & pedestrian islands
• Road diets & narrowed lanes