The speed of passenger cars driving outside queues within different speed limit zones as well as how the ownership of the car influences the driving speed were investigated. There were considerable differences in the speeds between the different car models. Within the speed limit zones of 100 and 120 km/h medium-sized and large cars drive faster than the small ones. Within the speed limit zones 50 and 80 km/h this could not be observed. The age of the car influences the driving speed with 0.8-1 km/h per year within the speed limit zones 100 km/h and 120 km/h. Thus a five years old car, which corresponds to the middleage of our car park, drives 4-5 km/h slower than new cars. The influence of age could no be observed within the other speed limit zones. Company cars are an average 2-3 years younger than cars in private ownership. When the age correction was taken into consideration, it could be stated that the speed of company cars exceeded with 4 km/h that of the private cars within the speed limit zone 100 km/h. This difference could not observed within lower speed limit zones. (ERA citation 13:036639)
Speeds of Company Cars
1987
66 pages
Report
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English
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