traffic
Let an agent explain traffic, relay concepts of flow, congestion, safety and management from transport engineering and public safety sources, describe the named modes and phenomena, route collisions to emergency services, and distinguish traffic from transport as a sector, trafficking in goods or people, network data traffic and travel demand.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain traffic, relay concepts of flow, congestion, safety and management from transport engineering and public safety sources, describe the named modes and phenomena, route collisions to emergency services, and distinguish traffic from transport as a sector, trafficking in goods or people, network data traffic and travel demand.
The movement of vehicles, vessels, aircraft, people or goods along routes, and the systems organising it, including road traffic by individual car transport and road freight transport, scheduled public transport and scheduled air transport, historical trades such as carters who moved goods by cart, and phenomena such as rat running, when drivers use residential streets to avoid congested main roads; traffic is studied in traffic engineering and managed through rules, signals and planning, and road traffic collisions are a leading cause of death worldwide.
What it is for: Movement of people and goods.
It can be explain flow and congestion; relay safety and management; describe named modes and phenomena; route collisions to emergency services.
Distinguishing features
Flows on networks
Congestion dynamics
Safety critical
Regulated
What it looks like
Vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, trains, ships and aircraft moving along routes.
Physical character
road traffic deaths: about 1.19 million per year people - WHO 2023 report
fundamental relation: flow = density x speed formula
registry parents: physical system, motion note
How it is recognised
Movement along routes and its organisation
Rat running, scheduled transport, individual car transport, road freight transport, scheduled air transport, carters trade
Transport is the sector; trafficking is illegal trade; data traffic is network flow; travel demand is the desire to travel
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is studied in -
includes - as a phenomenon
is contrasted with -
In practice
Families and kinds
road traffic
rail traffic
air traffic
maritime traffic
pedestrian and cycle traffic
freight traffic
Standards and regulation
Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
National highway codes
ICAO air traffic standards
UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
Failure modes and hazards
Road traffic collisions
Air pollution and noise
Confusing traffic and trafficking
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.traffic-communication
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What traffic is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is traffic, and how does it differ from transport, trafficking, data traffic and travel demand? definition
- Has there been a road collision with injuries or danger, in which case call emergency services? boundary
Named
Named modes and phenomena.
Named
Named.
- What are rat running, scheduled transport, individual car transport, road freight, scheduled air transport and the carters trade? definition
- Which entry fits the specific topic? action
Engineering Traffic engineering.
Sources.
Flow
Traffic flow.
Flow
Flow.
- How do flow, density and speed relate, and why do phantom jams form? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Management
Traffic management.
Management
Management.
- How are signals, filtering and low traffic neighbourhoods used to manage traffic and rat running? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Safety Safety.
Regulation.
Road safety
Road safety.
Road safety
Road safety.
- What does WHO report about road traffic deaths and effective measures? provenance
- Which entry fits Vision Zero? action
Air traffic
Air traffic control.
Air traffic
Air traffic.
- How is air traffic controlled? provenance
- Which entry fits air traffic control? action
Context Environment and history.
Context.
Environment
Environment.
Environment
Environment.
- How does traffic affect air quality and noise, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits traffic congestion? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did carters and horse traffic give way to motor traffic? provenance
- Which entry fits carter (occupation)? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should each mode of traffic be a separate entry?
- How should transport engineering sources be linked?
- Should the carters trade be moved to occupations?