🌍🚗 New Research Alert: The Impact of Speed Limit Change on Emissions
The latest The World Bank, GRSF - Global Road Safety Facility, CTLup study shows the impact of speed limits change on emissions in both high speed and low speed environments. The results support speed management as an essential tool for carbon abatement.
The key findings:
1. Evidence is mixed regarding emissions reductions in low-speed areas, but the results are promising. Moreover, lower urban speeds may improve traffic flow and encourage shifts away from personal vehicle use, potentially leading to significant overall emission reductions. In addition, minor emission reductions per vehicle may sum up to large overall reductions when all vehicles are considered.
2. For High-Speed Contexts, the results are clear cut with substantial decreases in emissions from speed limit reduction.
3. For both speed context, the impact varies based on specific speed limits, local context, vehicle types, and study procedures, among other factors.
4. Key recommendation: There is a pressing need to develop standardized speed–emission rate models that accurately represent diverse traffic scenarios including calmed low-speed traffic, stop–start arterials, free-flow traffic and mixed traffic.
The full study is available here https://lnkd.in/efNp7kPn
Special thanks to the co-authors Blair Turner, Alina F. Burlacu, Chris Jurewicz, Davide Shingo Usami, Steffel Feudjio and Luca Persia . This study was possible thanks to funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety 2020–2025.
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