Volume : 3 Issue : 2
Speed of Road Traffic for Optimal Climate Protection
Jovan Mitrovic
ABSTRACT
One of widespread measures for the regulation of road traffic consists of limiting the traffic speed. This is evidenced by numerous speed zones with limit speed on the roads and in the cities, for example Tempo30. The measure has considerable potential in terms of traffic safety. Motivated by the positive effect on traffic safety, speed limit zones were also set up for climate protection. The following discussion shows this implication to be not generally valid because the limit of speed can result in a higher fuel consumption and cause an additional impact of traffic on the environment.
