Citation

Hopkinson PG, May AD, Berrett B, Leake GR. Traffic Eng. Control 1989; 30(10): 482-486.

Affiliation

Univ of Leeds, Leeds, England.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Hemming Group)

DOI

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Abstract

The Institute for Transport Studies undertook a study to define approaches to traffic management for Sowerby Bridge, a mill town about two miles to the west of Halifax in West Yorkshire. This has developed an approach to environmental traffic management which does not rely upon the displacement of traffic, but makes use of Traffic Calming techniques to enable improvements in pedestrian routes and crossing facilities, parking management and the appearance and image of a location to be made. Rather than treating these as individual components, they have been treated as inter-related features which need to be examined as part of an overall process of town centre management. The features of the approach, and the study from which it evolved, are outlined in this article.