I’m working with my neighbors to petition the city to add traffic calming measures (e.g. speed bumps, one way roads) to my street. I’m also hoping to turn it into a bit of a research project. Does anyone know of any tools to monitor or even automate data collection of the speeds of cars, number of cars going by, how many actually stop at intersections/stop signs, etc? If we’re successful with the petition, I think it would be nice to be able to present some data from before and after the traffic calming measures are put in place. Thank you in advance!
Many speed bump designs can be built to slow down most cars while allowing larger emergency vehicles to clear the bumps. If you ever seen a speed bump thats more like 3 bumps side to side that is why. The wider axle width allows them to miss the bumps while most cars cannot.
I haven’t seen those in my area.
That sounds like incentivising the worst kind of cars - oversized trucks - even more.