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Bicyclist safety: Roundabouts are safer for cyclists and pedestrians than the typical intersection. The modern roundabout allows vehicles to yield and make a smoother speed change.
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The S.C. Department of Transportation is installing a roundabout at the intersection of U.S. Highway 29 and Welcome Road to increase safety by slowing down 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 passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport (mainly buses and trams). Best practices in modern road safety strategy:
The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles. 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 ...
Traffic calming uses physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. It has become a tool to combat speeding and other unsafe behaviours of drivers. [ 1 ] It aims to encourage safer, more responsible driving and potentially reduce traffic flow.
A roundabout, a rotary and a traffic circle are types of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In the USA, engineers use the term modern roundabout to refer to junctions installed after ...
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 (Public Law 93–87; 87 Stat. 250) is legislation enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law on August 13, 1973, which provided funding for existing interstate and new urban and rural primary and secondary roads in the United States. It also funded a highway safety improvement program, and ...