Speed Limits
Speed Limit Articles
The Truth About Speed Limits
This article boil down certain basic truths, concepts, and arguments about speed limits to their essential elements.
Do Speed Limits Matter?
This article looks at what might happen if there were no speed limits and wheter or not they matter.
Restoring Speed Limit Credibility
This page has a paper relating to speed limits that was submitted to the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in 2000.
Safety & Setting Speed Limits
This article is a thorough analysis of speed limits and their effect on safety.
Establishing Safe and Realistic Speed Limits
This educational presentation titled "Establishing Safe and Realistic Speed Limits" was given by the Michigan State Police to the Michigan House and Senate Transportation Committees in February 2011. The State Police also publish a booklet titled "Establishing Realistic Speed Limits" at www.michigan.gov/speedlimits. These publications explain the safety value of using realistic 85th percentile posted speed limits.
Go Back To Speed Limits Home PageYou deserve every speeding ticket you get. You can complain all you want after the fact, but it's true. Find out why.
It's one of the "great" American past times: complaining about unfair speeding tickets. There are two types of people when it comes to complaining about this particular type of traffic ticket. Which group are you in?
NMA Position on Speed Limits
Speed limits should be based on sound traffic-engineering principles that consider responsible motorists' actual travel speeds.
Typically, this should result in speed limits set at the 85th percentile speed of free-flowing traffic (the speed under which 85 percent of traffic is traveling).
NMA Speed Limits Fact Sheet
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