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d) Posted Speed — The speed limit determined by law and shown on Speed <br />Limit signs. <br />e) Statutory Speed — A speed limit established by legislative action that <br />typically is applicable for highways with specified design, functional, <br />jurisdictional and /or location characteristic and is not necessarily shown on <br />Speed Limit signs. <br />Speed Hump —Wave- shaped paved humps in the street. The height of the speed hump <br />determines how fast it may be navigated without causing discomfort to the driver or <br />damage to the vehicle. Discomfort increases as speed over the hump increases. <br />Typically speed humps are placed in a series rather than singularly. (Road humps, <br />undulations.) <br />Speed Limit — The maximum (or minimum) speed applicable to a section of highway or <br />roadway as established by law. <br />Speed Table — Trapezoidal shaped speed humps in the street, similar to speed humps. <br />(Trapezoidal humps, speed platforms.) <br />Street Closure — Street closed to motor vehicles using planters, bollards, or barriers, <br />etc. <br />Targeted Police Enforcement — Specific monitoring of speeding and other violations <br />by police due to observed, frequent law disobedience. <br />Traffic Management — A combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the <br />negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for <br />nonmotorized street users. Traffic managment involves changes in street alignment, <br />installation of barriers, and other physical measures to reduce traffic speeds and cut - <br />through volumes in the interest of street safety, livability and other public purposes. <br />Traffic management strategies are intended to be self - enforcing. Traffic calming <br />measures rely on the laws of physics rather than human psychology to slow down <br />traffic. <br />Traffic Circle — Circular, raised island placed within the middle of intersections, <br />requiring vehicles to divert around them, potentially forcing drivers to slow down as they <br />traverse around the circle. (Intersection islands, similar to roundabouts.) <br />19 <br />11/15/11 <br />