This section discusses some of the significant aspects of effectively implementing traffic calming. Three important aspects are, involving the neighborhood community throughout the entire implementation process, creating a traffic calming plan, and after doing research, knowing who to contact if traffic seems like a viable solution to the perceived problem. These aspects are discussed in greater detail below.

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Community Involvement

• Engaging and Educating the Public

1. Develop a Local Traffic Advisory Committee
2. Develop a Neighborhood Civic Advisory Committee
3. Develop a Permanent Neighborhood Transportation Committee
4. Hold Public Meetings
5. Conduct Workshops
6. Form Focus Groups
7. Hold Open Houses
8. Conduct a Visual Preference Survey
9. Use Computer Imaging
10. Conduct Guided Tours of Neighborhoods with Traffic Calming Already Implemented
11. Conduct a Walkabout
12. Train Community Members to Assist in Data Collection
13. Charrettes

• Notifying the Public

1. Media Strategies
2. Press Release
3. Newspaper Advertisements
4. Flyers & Brochures
5. Mailing Lists
6. Telephone Techniques
7. Web Site
8. Video Techniques

• Measuring the Public's Support and Approval for Traffic Calming

1. Determine the area affected by the traffic calming measures.
2. Measure support with petitions, ballots, and/or surveys.
3. Determine the level of support necessary to proceed with the traffic calming process.

• Reactive
• Proactive
• Spot Treatment
• Area-Wide Treatment

• Pennsylvania's Traffic Calming Handbook
• Neighborhood Traffic Management Program
• Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy