The widely acclaimed “Traffic Calming Guidelines”, first published in 1991, is now freely available on the CIHT website. The book influenced a generation of urban designers and traffic engineers in creating safer and more civilised streets. The main author, Tim Pharoah, has now donated a full electronic version which today has been placed on the CIHT website.

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Produced by Devon County Council, including many photographs and colour graphics, the 180 page book won the Mobil prize for road safety, and continues to be a valuable source of reference. Its publication on the web will make it accessible to all and provides an important addition to the CIHT archive.

Tim Pharoah said: “Traffic Calming Guidelines is a special book because of the very high quality production by Devon County Council. It brings together British practice with cutting edge examples from Germany and Holland; countries which at that time were well ahead of the UK.”

The groundbreaking work advocated street layouts that reduce driver speeds while creating a more attractive environment. It was a forerunner to the Manual for Streets which picked up the theme 16 years later, and of which Tim Pharoah was also a co-author. Besides guidance on residential streets, the Devon book advocated innovative approaches to the design of urban main streets, a theme that will be taken forward in the CIHT forthcoming companion volume to Manual for Streets.

For more information please contact:

John Smart, Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
t: 020 7336 1540
e: john.smart@ciht.org.uk

Tim Pharoah, Independent Transport Consultant
t: 020 8769 1560
e: timpharoah@tiscali.co.uk