In October 2009, Edmonton City Council, with support from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, initiated the residential speed reduction pilot project. The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) was tasked to develop and initiate the pilot project, identify six residential communities for proposed speed limit reduction, and reduce the speed limit from 50 km/h to 40 km/h. This paper reports the selection criteria and the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multi-criteria decision analysis tool to create a ranked list of neighbourhoods. Additional criteria such as incoming and ongoing neighbourhood road rehabilitation plans, neighbourhood development and roadway network types were used to further scrutinize the ranked list and select six communities for the pilot project. The project commenced on May 1, 2010 and concluded October 31, 2010.
