• Traffic signal preemption (also called traffic signal prioritisation) is a system that allows an operator to override the normal operation of traffic...
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    Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa, Zambia, and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections...
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    use traffic signal preemption to give priority to emergency vehicles. These preemption applications often include an illuminated "notifier" signal. A notifier...
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    signal preemption. In the US, approaching trains activate a routine where, before the road lights and barriers are activated, all traffic signal phases...
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    Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of the...
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    rapid transit Transport divide Traffic engineering (transportation) Traffic signal preemption "Active Transit Signal Priority". NACTO. 19 April 2016...
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    infrastructure. The traffic signal preemption circuits for both the grade crossing and the Taconic, meant to extend the green signal for vehicles on Commerce...
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    Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures, such as traffic calming, to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical...
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  • traffic signals, and earlier forms of roundabouts, modern roundabouts reduce the likelihood and severity of collisions greatly by reducing traffic speeds...
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    Traffic cones, also called pylons, witches' hats, road cones, highway cones, safety cones, caution cones, channelizing devices, construction cones, roadworks...
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    Brookings. Retrieved 2 June 2023. "625 ILCS 5/12-601.1. Traffic control signal preemption devices.". Illinois Compiled Statutes. Illinois General Assembly...
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    fully controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, intersections or property access. They are free of any at-grade...
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    A traffic island is a solid or painted object in a road that channels traffic. It can also be a narrow strip of island between roads that intersect at...
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  • serve a year in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation web site. Traffic signal preemption "Hackers target traffic lights" at TMCnet...
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    See also Traffic signal preemption Speed signs are a rarely used variant to give drivers a recommended speed to approach the next traffic light in its...
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  • war or preemptive strike Traffic signal preemption This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Preemption. If an internal link led...
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    Detour (redirect from Traffic diversion)
    or (British English: diversion) is a (normally temporary) route taking traffic around an area of prohibited or reduced access, such as a construction...
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  • emergency responders who actuate traffic signal preemption devices to verify that other motorists are facing a red signal. However, confirmation lights also...
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    Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, in Britain as crash barriers, and in auto racing as Armco barriers) keep vehicles...
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    specialized traffic signs and signals. The more cycling infrastructure, the more people get about by bicycle. Good road design, road maintenance and traffic management...
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    they were free-flowing and did not require the use of such devices as traffic signals. This not only made them a viable option for interchanges between freeways...
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    Cross traffic Yes- cross traffic allowed at-grade without a traffic light Intersections - at-grade with a traffic signal No - no cross traffic Divided...
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    (known as downtown in the USA) the amount of pedestrian traffic can exceed motorized traffic, and in this case the sidewalks can occupy more than half...
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    Shoulder Street-running railway Traffic calming Traffic directionality Traffic island Traffic lanes Traffic signal preemption Truck bypass Unused highway...
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    Roadkill (redirect from Traffic victims)
    estimated that one million vertebrate animals are killed by vehicular traffic daily in the United States. A 2008 Federal Highway Administration report...
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    Hook turn (category Traffic law)
    need for extra traffic lanes or altered signals. To perform a two-stage turn, cyclists should enter the junction when given a green signal (simultaneous...
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    Bollard (redirect from Traffic pole)
    boats. In modern usage, it also refers to posts installed to control road traffic and posts designed to prevent automotive vehicles from colliding with pedestrians...
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    sidewalk behind the traffic signal. Marohn was astonished to discover that a bench had placed right next to this breakaway traffic light pole, "inviting...
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    right-of-way for every vehicle oncoming from the right at a junction without traffic signals and priority signs (including T junctions). In other jurisdictions...
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    allows cyclists to stop for a traffic light well ahead of motor traffic who must stop behind the crosswalk. Separate signal staging or at least an advance...
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