RESIDENTIAL STREET DESIGN: DO THE BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS KNOW SOMETHING AMERICANS DO NOT?

American, British, and Australian street design guidelines governing geometrics, sidewalk warrants, intersection treatments, network design, and traffic-calming measures are compared. British and Australian guidelines provide for narrower pavement surfaces, sharper horizontal curves to control speeds, roundabouts and T-intersections, more efficient networks, and a wide array of traffic-calming devices. Americans have fallen behind the British and Australians in the conception of residential street functions and approaches to traffic management. British and Australian design guidelines appear to offer the best of the contemporary and the neotraditional, with European traffic calming thrown in for good measure.