{"id":214242072,"date":"2011-10-16T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=214242072"},"modified":"2011-10-16T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:41:12","slug":"go-slow-to-go-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=214242072","title":{"rendered":"Go Slow to Go Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt&#8217;s Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/transport\/2011\/10\/rolling_speed_harmonization_how_colorado_fights_congestion_on_i_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My latest Slate column<\/a> explores the concept of \u201crolling speed harmonization\u201d on a Colorado highway.  <\/p>\n<p><em>As one report describes it, speed harmonization \u201cholds that by encouraging speed compliance and reducing speed differential between vehicles, volume throughput can be maximized without a physical increase in roadway dimensions.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The concept plays, in part, on one of traffic engineering\u2019s core truths: Big speed differentials are dangerous. This is laid out in the \u201cGreen Book,\u201d the bible of the American Association of Surface Highway Transportation Officials. \u201cCrashes are not related as much to speed as to the range in speeds from the highest to lowest,\u201d the book states. \u201cStudies show that, regardless of the average speed on the highway, the more a vehicle deviates from the average speed, the greater its chances of becoming involved in a crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2011\/10\/16\/go-slow-to-go-fast\/\">https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2011\/10\/16\/go-slow-to-go-fast\/<\/a>oldId.20111016154112266<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt&#8217;s Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt My latest Slate column explores the concept of \u201crolling speed harmonization\u201d on a Colorado highway. As one report describes it, speed harmonization \u201cholds that by encouraging speed compliance and reducing speed differential between vehicles, volume throughput can be maximized without a physical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=214242072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Slow to Go Fast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214242072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214242072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214242072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214242072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214242072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214242072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214242072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}