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EVALUATING TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MEASURES IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

J E Coeymans, Jean-Marie De Koninck, Juan de Dios Ortúzar

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This paper presents the main results of a 9 month pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of several traffic management measures over 2 of the most important arterial roads in Santiago, Chile. It is shown that in the case of a developing country--with different traffic compositions, driving habits, police enforcement, etc. than an industrialized nation--the implementation of traffic management schemes can yield very high social rates of return, even when considering extremely low values of time. The paper concludes proposing a simplified methodology which makes good use of several computer programs easily available.

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This paper presents the main results of a 9 month pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of several traffic management measures over 2 of the most important arterial roads in Santiago, Chile. It is shown that in the case of a developing country--with different traffic compositions, driving habits, police enforcement, etc. than an industrialized nation--the implementation of traffic management schemes can yield very high social rates of return, even when considering extremely low values of time. The paper concludes proposing a simplified methodology which makes good use of several computer programs easily available.

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This paper presents the main results of a 9 month pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of several traffic management measures over 2 of the most important arterial roads in Santiago, Chile. It is shown that in the case of a developing country--with different traffic compositions, driving habits, police enforcement, etc. than an industrialized nation--the implementation of traffic management schemes can yield very high social rates of return, even when considering extremely low values of time. The paper concludes proposing a simplified methodology which makes good use of several computer programs easily available.

Key concepts: Enforcement, Developing country, Transport engineering, Law enforcement, Yield (engineering), Business, Road traffic, Computer science

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