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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Speed Bumps: An Empirical Study in Campus

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Green Intelligent Transportation Systems (GITSS 2016)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 419))

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The installation of speed bumps on the roads aims to improve traffic safety by forcing vehicle to decelerate. The actual deceleration effectiveness of speed bump is closely related to driving behaviors, installation place, dimension, structure of speed bump, etc. Through video capture in campus and urban roads and coordinate transformation, the spot velocity curves of each vehicle’s traversing the speed bump are obtained. Based on the trajectory data, evaluations on the actual performance of speed bump are carried out. Results show that speed bumps can have certain effect on speed reduction. But the disperse distribution of spot velocities indicates diverse driving behaviors, meaning that speed bumps may not influence all of the vehicles.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under grant 71301010, 51378062 and the Excellent Young Scholars Research Fund of Beijing Institute of Technology.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Jing Lv, Cheng Li, Hongwei Guo, Wuhong Wang & Xiaobei Jiang

  2. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Jing Lv, Cheng Li, Hongwei Guo, Wuhong Wang & Xiaobei Jiang

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  1. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

    Wuhong Wang

  2. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Klaus Bengler

  3. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

    Xiaobei Jiang

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Lv, J., Li, C., Guo, H., Wang, W., Jiang, X. (2018). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Speed Bumps: An Empirical Study in Campus. In: Wang, W., Bengler, K., Jiang, X. (eds) Green Intelligent Transportation Systems. GITSS 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 419. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3551-7_33

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