ITE Journal on ThE wEb / FEbruary 2008 69
By JODy ROSENBLATT NADERI, ByOUNG SUK KWEON,
Ph.
D.
AND PRAVEEN MAGhELAL
ThIS PILOT PRESENTS
EMPIRIcAL fINDINGS
ON STREET TREES AND
ThEIR EffEcT ON DRIVING
BEhAVIOR, SAfETy
PERcEPTION AND SPEED.
ThE
ExPERIMENT...
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ITE Journal on ThE wEb / FEbruary 2008 69
By JODy ROSENBLATT NADERI, ByOUNG SUK KWEON,
Ph.
D.
AND PRAVEEN MAGhELAL
ThIS PILOT PRESENTS
EMPIRIcAL fINDINGS
ON STREET TREES AND
ThEIR EffEcT ON DRIVING
BEhAVIOR, SAfETy
PERcEPTION AND SPEED.
ThE
ExPERIMENT INVESTIGATED
ThE EffEcT Of TREES ON
PERcEPTION Of SAfETy AND
DRIVING SPEEDS IN URBAN
OR SUBURBAN SETTINGS.
TREE-LINED STREETS WERE
PERcEIVED TO BE SAfER
IN BOTh URBAN AND
SUBURBAN cONDITIONS.
INDIVIDUAL DRIVING SPEEDS
WERE SIGNIfIcANTLy
REDUcED IN ThE SUBURBAN
SETTINGS WITh TREES.
The Street Tree Effect and Driver Safety
INTRODUcTION
Street trees are dangerous, difficult to
install and expensive to maintain, but
there is not a transportation engineer who
has not had to negotiate tree planting or
tree preservation to reach project completion.
Engineering design and transportation planning guidelines consider street
trees obstacles in the roadside environment.
Transportation research related to
street trees in the United States focus
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