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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Variations in traffic light operation. Swedish traffic light (left) for use by public transport vehicles only. All signals use white lighting and special symbols ("S", "–" and an arrow) to distinguish them from regular signals. The small light at the top tells the driver when the vehicle's transponder signal is received by the traffic light.
The simplest version is commonly known as a right turn on red (or simply right on red) in countries that drive on the right side of the road, or a left turn on red in countries that drive on the left side of the road. A right turn requires checking only two nearby crosswalks (at least one of which will show "don't walk") and vehicular traffic ...
This is a comparison of road signs in countries and regions that speak majorly English, including major ones where it is an official language and widely understood (and as a lingua franca). Among the countries listed below, Liberia, Nigeria, and the Philippines have ratified the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, while the United ...
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.
More than 400 buggy crashes between 2000 and 2019 resulted in injuries, PennDOT reports.