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In traffic engineering, a merge is the point where two streams of traffic travelling in the same direction from multiple roads or in multiple lanes on the same road are required to merge into a single lane. A merge may be a permanent road feature, for example at the end of a dual carriageway, or a temporary feature, common during roadworks.
Instead of everyone merging as soon as they have space, drivers should wait until their last chance to merge before the lane ends. This way, there is less traffic congestion caused by drivers ...
Drivers who wait until their lane ends to merge at the last minute may seem rude when they’re jumping ahead of other drivers waiting in line, but studies show that the maneuver can help improve ...
The usual designation for lanes on divided highways is the fastest lane is the one closest to the center of the road, and the slowest to the edge of the road. In the United States, the inside lane refers to the fastest (left-most lane), but in the United Kingdom, it refers to the slowest lane. Because the UK drives on the left, the inside lane ...
This section addresses two-lane freeways and other narrow or undivided freeway sections of the Interstate, excepting instances of continuing routes using one-lane ramps and merge leads. Narrow gaps between opposing directions with jersey barriers taller than four feet (1.2 m) are excluded from this section; therefore the separation criterion is ...
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A passing lane (North American English), overtaking lane (English outside North America) is a lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the median of the road (the central reservation) used for passing vehicles in other lanes. (North American usage also calls the higher-speed lane nearest the median the "inside lane" but in the United ...
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