The study was conducted by Ali Pirdavani (CAMBER’s Technical Coordinator) together with Mahdi Sadeqi Bajestani, Maarten Mantels and Thibaut Spooren from Hasselt University.
This publication represents an important contribution to developing cost-effective and innovative interventions to improve road safety, which is one of CAMBER’s core objectives. Within the project, traffic-calming measures have been identified as a key intervention to enhance safety in the secondary road network.
Using a high-fidelity driving simulator, the research team evaluated various gateway designs providing valuable behavioural evidence on how different physical and psychological measures affect driver speed and stability at urban entry points. The findings offer practical insights for designing safer, more perceptually effective and sustainable transitions between high- and low-speed areas, fully aligned with CAMBER’s ambition to improve safety through data-driven, implementable solutions.
