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  2. Traffic calming - Wikipedia

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    Traffic engineers refer to three "E's" when discussing traffic calming: engineering, (community) education, and (police) enforcement.Because neighborhood traffic management studies have shown that residents often contribute to the perceived speeding problem within their neighborhoods, instructions on traffic calming (for example in Hass-Klau et al., 1992 [4]) stress that the most effective ...

  3. Speed bump - Wikipedia

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    The traverse distance of a speed bump is typically less than or near to 0.3 m (1 ft); contrasting with the wider speed humps, which typically have a traverse distance of 3.0 to 4.3 m (10 to 14 ft). [5] [6] Speed bumps are used in parking lots and on small-neighborhood roads where space and cost are limited.

  4. DC injection braking - Wikipedia

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    A DC injection brake system can be used as an alternative or addition to a friction brake system. DC injection brakes only require a small module located with the other motor switchgear and/or drivers, mounted in a remote and convenient location, whereas a friction brake must be mounted somewhere on the rotating system.

  5. Speed bumps don't work: New approaches challenge long-held ...

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    For decades, speed bumps have been a go-to solution for calming traffic and improving pedestrian safety. However, recent research and growing community concerns are challenging this long-held ...

  6. Fresno’s most famous speed bumps have admirers everywhere. Thousands of online viewers take great delight in watching some of the city’s worst drivers fail to slow down for a set of speed bumps.

  7. Actibump - Wikipedia

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    An Actibump is an automatic speed-bump on a road. It is a product developed by the Edeva AB group, a Swedish traffic systems manufacturing company. It is triggered when a speeding vehicle drives over an activated piece of the road, causing a change in the level of the road as a warning to the driver. [1]

  8. Automotive suspension design process - Wikipedia

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    Choosing the location of the 'hard points', or theoretical centres of each ball joint or bushing; Selecting the rates of the bushings; Analysing the loads in the suspension; Designing the spring rates; Designing shock absorber characteristics; Designing the structure of each component so that it is strong, stiff, light, and cheap

  9. Talk:Speed bump - Wikipedia

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    Vertical deflection traffic calming device → Speed bump – Last year, after some discussion, a consensus was reached to merge four closely related articles - speed bump, speed hump, speed cushion, and speed table - because they are basically variations on a theme, and there was virtually complete overlap in discussions of their usage ...