1. Marko Renčelj, University of Maribor Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovenia

Traffic calming began simultaneously in Europe and Australia when efforts were made to change driver's behaviour to make streets safer for children, pedestrians and cyclists. In The Netherlands traffic calming was "developed by urban planners and traffic engineers who realized that the well being of people was influenced not only by housing but also by the surrounding streets. It was not enough to improve housing without making the roads more congenial places."
Today it is already common knowledge that traffic calming is a "combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter drivers behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users."
Main goals of traffic calming could be defined as:
 increasing the quality of life,
 incorporating the preferences and requirements of the people using the area (e.g. working, playing, residing) along the street(s) or at intersection(s),
 creating safe and attractive streets,
 helping to reduce the negative effects of motor vehicles on the environment (e.g. pollution, sprawl), and
 promoting pedestrian, cycle and transit use.
Traffic calming measures (all kind of devices, applications etc.) are becoming more frequent in Slovenia as well, especially in the last twenty years. Our Law about public roads define measures and devices for traffic calming. According to the Law traffic calming devices are physical, lighting or others devices and obstructions that:
 physically prevent the participants in road traffic to drive with inappropriate speed and
 warn the participants in road traffic to speed limit on dangerous sections of road.
Physical obstructions could be set down (only) on regional state roads and local roads inside the settlement / city. Before schools, kindergartens and other objects, along which the speed is limited (due to traffic safety of all participants), usage of physical traffic calming devices is obligatory.
In the article we will present Slovenian experiences with traffic calming devices in Slovenian settlements. Analysis will be focused on traffic calming devices (a) at the beginning of the settlement, (b) on the road sections inside settlement and (c) at the intersections inside settlement.

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Datum: 29.09.2014.

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