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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 November 2024. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 ⇅ Left-hand traffic ⇵ Right-hand traffic Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side ...
Dagen H (H-day), today usually called " Högertrafikomläggningen " (lit. 'the right-hand traffic reorganisation'), was on 3 September 1967, the day on which Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. [2] The "H" stands for " Högertrafik ", the Swedish word for right-hand traffic.
In the US, we drive on the right-hand side, but many countries drive on the left. Make sure you know if you’ll be driving on the opposite side you’re used to so you can get prepared.
It turns out that about 30% of the world’s countries mandate left-side driving and another 70% or so stay to the right. How it got that way is a winding tale. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte ...
Iceland's parliament (Alþingi) made the following demand of the government on 13 May 1964: [4] "Alþingi urges the government to initiate as soon as possible research into how best to move the traffic to the right hand side of the road." A law was passed in 1965, under which the country would change to driving on the right in 1968. [5]
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
English: A map indicating which countries drive on the right side of the road, and which drive on the left side. Esperanto: Mapo indikanta, en kiuj landoj oni veturas sur la dekstra flanko de la strato, kaj en kiuj oni veturas sur la maldekstra flanko .
Upper left and right and middle right are standard directional signs. Lower left is for a commercial facility, and lower right is for a temporary detour. Signs in Norway mostly follow the Vienna Convention, except the polar bear warning sign, which is a white bear on a black background and a red border. These are the directional signs: