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  2. Geometric design of roads - Wikipedia

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    The alignment is the route of the road, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves. The profile is the vertical aspect of the road, including crest and sag curves, and the straight grade lines connecting them. The cross section shows the position and number of vehicle and bicycle lanes and sidewalks, along with their cross slope or ...

  3. Complete streets - Wikipedia

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    As a result, bus speeds increased 20 percent and total number of bus riders increased 10 percent. In addition, Fordham Road's locally based businesses saw a 71 percent increase in retail sales, compared to 23 percent borough-wide. [19] Marin County, California added bike lanes to the busy Alameda del Prado roadway. As a result, the area saw a ...

  4. Types of road - Wikipedia

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    A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

  5. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    In countries such as the United Kingdom new motorways require an Act of Parliament to ensure restricted right of way. Since upgrading an existing road (the "King's Highway") to a full motorway will result in extinguishing the right of access of certain groups such as pedestrians, cyclists and slow-moving traffic, many controlled access roads ...

  6. Green transport hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The green transport hierarchy (Canada), street user hierarchy (US), sustainable transport hierarchy (Wales), [1] urban transport hierarchy or road user hierarchy (Australia, UK) [2] is a hierarchy of modes of passenger transport prioritising green transport. [3] It is a concept used in transport reform groups worldwide [4] [5] and in policy ...

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  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Patrick had tagged some variation of his name or initials on the book’s surfaces with a ballpoint pen, and its pages were full of highlighting and bristling with Post-its. Back in the wood-paneled living room of their Lexington, Kentucky, home that afternoon, Patrick and his parents began an impromptu family meeting about what to do next.

  9. Level of service (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    A road in a constant traffic jam is at this LOS, because LOS is an average or typical service rather than a constant state. For example, a highway might be at LOS D for the AM peak hour, but have traffic consistent with LOS C some days, LOS E or F others, and come to a halt once every few weeks.