New Jersey S2497 mandates speed limits on certain limited access highways be based on the 85th percentile speed of vehicles, rounded up to the.
New Jersey S2497, known as the Speed Limit Sanity Act, requires the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, and the South Jersey Transportation Authority to conduct traffic engineering speed surveys on eligible limited access highways. These surveys determine the speed at which vehicles travel, and the speed limit is set at the 85th percentile speed, rounded up to the nearest five miles per hour. The speed limit cannot be set below the 67th percentile speed, also rounded up.
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