the World’s big cities change constantly more people, more common space becomes a dispute. It is already evident hostility of motorists towards. The same urbanisation mega trend is going also in Finland. Here, too, thrashed already.
sydney equal of New South Wales university of Transport and Road Safety research centre, professor Jake Olivier visit early September in Finland, teaching positions in. The american Olivier is one of the world’s best-known and most respected transport safety research of the.
the Professor according to the global movements, in which people are trying to get the city once again over the vehicles and make them less attractive for motor vehicles, are good in principle but do not work in practice.
no One change the behavior so that he will be yelled at. That way, people are intimidated or let’s piss off. Yes, people need to move around and get to work. If the parallel-hour commute by car turns into a public two-hour trip, so it doesn’t matter it resolved, that the motorist is told that the city is no car in it. These things we need to discuss, instead of showing motorists the finger.
Olivier knows how emotions racking topic traffic everywhere. Public transport and light traffic to keep the cities increase, but it must be politely discussed by and based on research information.
Jake Olivier this researched information is. He has most recently analyzed 15 different transport research material to determine what kind of risk pedestrians have died in traffic accidents.
– Vehicle drivers are the problem. When the motorists can be displaced light and public transport, road safety would improve substantially.
Professor Jake Olivier held in helsinki in statistics course of at the beginning of September. The first time he visited finland to 2016, when he attended the Tampere world conference. Marcus Ziemann / Yle40 is in the city centre too much
Jake Olivier recalls that the transport safety must never be based on politics. Intuition was the basis for the decisionmaking process only when research information is not. But the traffic study is a lot. Information from it can’t be closed.
Nicklas research group after known, inter alia, that the already one kilometer of the speed of the increase in the collision, to raise the pedestrian’s risk of death an average of 11%. (you move to another service)
for Example, a vehicle colliding with a pedestrian at 30 miles per hour the risk of death is five percent. 37 km/h collision speed, the risk of death is already 10%. 50% risk of death achieved by 59 km/h speed, 75%, 69 speed and 90% at 80 km impact speed in.
the Professor stresses that the impact speed and the speed limit are not the same thing. 30 speed limit area drive slowly in many collision remains wholly born, or if a collision happens, the momentum is missed braking to slow down so much that the risk of death remains low.
– If the visibility is good, the lighting conditions are right and the motorist sufficient time for pedestrian detection, it is possible that the 40 km speed limit is in town pretty good, Olivier said.
instead where there is pedestrians, visibility is not as good, the lighting is not sufficient, the street along the parked cars and turning traffic as well is, should the speed limit be Olivier, 30. They are just the circumstances in which Finland has for months.
– I don’t mean to be negative, but I wonder, that in Helsinki or other big cities such as Tampere or Turku, there is not generally a 30 limit.
”So much of the evidence is not that all insurance would be”
the speed limit are many views. Olivier often read on twitter, how wrong he research results at any time. The researcher to understand people’s reactions.
So much evidence is not that all the insurance would. For some, it is so great to believe in something that no amount of evidence will get them to change their mind.
Statistics Olivier, of course, know that all is always associated with uncertainties. Things are never just yes or no.
yes, it is possible that the car hit a pedestrian a hundred miles an hour and this will survive. After all that happened, but the probability of this is vanishingly small. Accordingly people have died 20-30 miles an hour speed.
the american professor want to get people to think differently and to change their behavior. A traffic accident is rare these days. Such is not believed to ever hit the to.
no one wants to be in a vehicle that hits a pedestrian so that it will die. No one wants to run into the people 50 miles an hour. Even 30 kilometres in speed is not from completely dying. Five percent is still too much.
the Professor according to the low speed limits in cities are currently sensible, but in the future can be different, too. Vehicles in the growing security technology is constantly improving and it becomes reliable. The car of the future is no longer colliding with anything.
But still so long not to be. People is traffic the weakest link.
the statistics course in Helsinki for a week pulled Jake Olivier recalled that three of the ten cities yes get used to it. Used particular, it was once the seat belt to be adhered, although the resistance was initially fierce.
– Eventually people will accept the changes and begin to think that this was a good idea. Acceptance of help, if we can show that things work. Always they do not work. It, too, need to accept.
see also:
Helsinki drops to residential areas speed limit of 30 km/h and others will follow – Why 30 is the city in better speed?
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