Reuben Smeed
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Reuben Smeed
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Reuben Jacob Smeed CBE (1909–1976) was a British statistician and transport researcher. He proposed Smeed's law which correlated traffic fatalities to traffic density and predicted that the average speed of traffic in central London would always be nine miles per hour without other disincentives, given that this was the minimum speed that people will tolerate. He chaired the Smeed Report which reported to the Government of the United Kingdom on road pricing in 1964 which recommended introducing
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British statistician and transport researcher
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