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Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic laws and informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic. [ 1 ] Organized traffic generally has well-established priorities, lanes, right-of-way, and traffic control at intersections.
In transportation engineering, traffic flow is the study of interactions between travellers (including pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and their vehicles) and infrastructure (including highways, signage, and traffic control devices), with the aim of understanding and developing an optimal transport network with efficient movement of traffic and minimal traffic congestion problems.
Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. Traffic congestion on urban road networks has increased substantially since the 1950s, resulting in many of the roads becoming obsolete. [1] When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between ...
Road traffic safety. Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle ...
List of some standard rules of the road: Entering and leaving roadways. Right of way at marked and unmarked intersections under various conditions. Observing and interpreting traffic signs (especially warning, priority or prohibitory traffic signs) Keeping to right side (or left side) except to pass others, where passing is allowed.
Three-phase traffic theory. Three-phase traffic theory is a theory of traffic flow developed by Boris Kerner between 1996 and 2002. [1][2][3] It focuses mainly on the explanation of the physics of traffic breakdown and resulting congested traffic on highways. Kerner describes three phases of traffic, while the classical theories based on the ...
Web traffic is the data sent and received by visitors to a website. Since the mid-1990s, web traffic has been the largest portion of Internet traffic. [1] Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by ...
Internet traffic is the flow of data within the entire Internet, or in certain network links of its constituent networks.Common traffic measurements are total volume, in units of multiples of the byte, or as transmission rates in bytes per certain time units.