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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"School Zone"”.
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An Evaluation of School Zone Traffic Control Strategies
… has shifted from walking to riding in a school bus or personal vehicle which has impacted both the safety and efficiency of school zone traffic control strategies. In order to improve school zone operations in West Virginia, current warrants and laws relevant to school zones within West …
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Exploring the Considerations of School Zone Speed Control in Traffic Signal Timing
School zone speed control is a crucial safety intervention that assists in slowing down traffic and warning drivers to pay more attention to vulnerable road users. This restriction may result in impacts on arterial traffic operations, including speed reduction and potentially additional stops at …
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The Bully-Free School Zone Character Education Program: A Study of Impact on Five Western North Carolina Middle Schools.
<p>In today's schools bullies have the power to be more tenacious, more vicious, and meaner than ever. We are all beginning to understand that victims of bullying are at a greater risk for depression, suicide, and hurting others through violent acts. The purpose of this qualitative study was to …
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Evaluation of the Automated Speed Enforcement Program of the City of Regina
… as well as some of the high-risk collision school zone locations in Regina, Saskatoon, and Moose Jaw. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the Automated Speed Enforcement Program on the school zones—not only on collisions in the school zones, but also speed changes at the …
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Increasing Speed Limit Compliance in Reduced-Speed School Zones
Reduced-speed school zones greatly improve the safety of young children commuting to and from school and provide larger gaps in traffic for children to cross the street. The main focus of this study was to determine effective methods for increasing speed compliance in reduced-speed school zones. …
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The Impact of Police Officer Presence on Driver Behaviors Within Active School Zones
… local advocacy efforts, such as Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) programs and Vision Zero Washoe County serve to educate pedestrians, school officials, and drivers, pedestrian fatalities and crashes involving Washoe County School District (WCSD) students are still at record levels. The study …
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Applying Log-linear Models And GIS To Study The Safety Of Pedestrians And Bicyclists : A Case Study Of Orange County School Children
Abstract Pedestrian /bicycle safety of school children has been a growing menace that has been attracting attention from transportation professionals, school boards, media and the community all over the country. As such there has been a necessity to identify critical variables and assess their …
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Essays on urban economics special focus on New Zealand housing markets
… increased with distance to residential red zones (areas where liquefaction damage was beyond economical repair) the most in TC3 after the EQS. The second chapter, titled ""Is There a Slope Discount?"" is joint work with Geoffrey Hewings. This chapter attends to the construction of more …
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Investigation of the road safety measures around schools in Ethekwini
… involving child pedestrians around primary schools. The schools with the highest road traffic crashes were used to investigate the road and environment contributory factors to crashes and finally the interventions in place at these schools to reduce road traffic injuries. The magnitude of …
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Students Who Are Gifted and Public School Enrollment Choices Their Parents Make
Given the many school choices available to parents, there is a need to understand the reasons parents of a child who is gifted choose to keep their child in his/her current school. Parents* satisfaction with their child*s school and their academic growth is essential to continued enrollment of the …