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Some laws, such as a Road Traffic Act 1988 and a Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, do exist; a manual titled Highway Code is edited by a public entity with guidelines based on and/or compatible with local law. In European Union law, legislation is more oriented on transport competition and not on sharing the road.
For driving in the United States, each state and territory has its own traffic code or rules of the road, although most of the rules of the road are similar for the purpose of uniformity, given that all states grant reciprocal driving privileges (and penalties) to each other's licensed drivers. There is also a "Uniform Vehicle Code" which was ...
Highways Act 1980; The Highway Code; Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984; Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals; Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a comparable system in the United States; Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996, similar regulations for safety signs
Using micro-simulation, they analyzed the effects of Eco-Driving on network-wide traffic and environmental performance at the speed of 30 km/h. It shows that increasing uses of Eco-Driving in certain road networks significantly affect a cause of traffic congestion and heavy traffic at the investigated roads.
Traffic regulations may refer to: Motor vehicle traffic regulations (rules of the road) Highway Code in the United Kingdom; Traffic code in the United States; Vienna Convention on Road Traffic for international standards; Air traffic control; International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
The Driver License Compact, a framework setting out the basis of a series of laws within adopting states in the United States (as well as similar reciprocal agreements in adopting provinces of Canada), gives states a simple standard for reporting, tracking, and punishing traffic violations occurring outside of their state, without requiring individual treaties between every pair of states.
The "Texas T", an innovation originally introduced in Houston, is a ramp design that allows vehicles in the HOV lane, which is usually the center lane, to exit directly to transit centers or to enter the freeway directly into the HOV lane without crossing multiple lanes of traffic. Timed freeway entrances, which regulate the addition of cars to ...
The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a period when the number of people killed on the road had increased 6-fold and ...