Abstract
A number of annual traffic fatalities in Japan are continuously decreasing in the past 13 years. However, increasing proportion of traffic accidents occurring at streets, which have narrow widths and spread living places, has become bigger problems recently. For a reason that the streets have spread to a wide area in cites, the counter measures to focus on area speed managements are useful. In recent years, the National Police Agency in Japan has decided to promote area speed limit called Zone 30, for example. We think that it is extremely important to smoothly develop such safety measures for the streets as soon as possible. In this study, from the viewpoint of the land use and the ideal performance that is basically required as a street, methodology for selecting area speed management areas were proposed through the case study of Toyota City.
