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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side ...
English: A map indicating which countries drive on the right side of the road, and which drive on the left side, coupled with whether they use kilometers as a distance/speed unit, or miles. Right-hand traffic, kilometers
More than 90 percent of Swedes drove left-hand-drive vehicles, [5] and this led to many head-on collisions when passing on narrow two-lane highways. [6] City buses were among the very few vehicles that conformed to the normal opposite-steering wheel rule, being right-hand-drive (RHD). [7]
You’re probably aware that around 30% of the world’s countries drive on the left while 70% drive on the right. But have you considered why? ... In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte had a big hand in ...
For just that reason, Conestoga wagons had the controls on the left side, close to the wagon driver’s right hand. That meant the driver was toward the middle of the road and the wagon to the right.
A sign indicating that all vehicles shall be driven only in the right-hand lane unless overtaking slower vehicles. The use of passing lanes for faster traffic is sometimes acknowledged with signs using phrases such as "Slower Traffic Keep Right" [14] (in Canada, where the passing lane is to the left).
Police ordinance of right-hand traffic in the Prague area. The switch to right-hand traffic in Czechoslovakia was a change in the rule of the road in 1938–1939. Before 1938, Czechoslovakia drove on the left. In 1925, Czechoslovakia accepted the Paris convention and undertook to change to right-hand traffic "within a reasonable time frame".
Although Iceland had been ruled by Denmark, which officially adopted driving on the right in 1793, it had continued to drive on the left; a plan to switch to right-hand traffic was interrupted by World War II, when the country was under British military occupation, as military traffic was greater than that of civilians.