Traffic control

As traffic control the totality of all is measures to parent steering and influencing transport elements in a transport network referred. Like traffic shifting and traffic avoidance, traffic control is a field of activity in traffic management and is particularly important in road traffic.

The two terms traffic control and traffic management do not have the same meaning. When traffic management is the set of identification and demarcation course of transport elements on a traffic area .

activities

A distinction is made between the following measures for steering and influencing road users in road traffic:

Collective traffic management by means of vehicle-external communication means (for example, by static and dynamic route guidance and signs )
Collective traffic management by means of vehicle-internal communication means (for example by traffic )
Individual traffic control using vehicle-internal communication means (for example with a navigation system )

aims

Possible goals of traffic control in road traffic:

Avoidance of search and wrong journeys for road users who are unfamiliar with the location
Guarantee of the shortest possible travel times
Avoidance of overload in power supplies
Optimized utilization of power supplies
Reduction in operating costs
Reduction of consequential costs (energy, accidents, environment, etc.)
Diversion to stress-insensitive routes (e.g. truck guidance networks)

Individual evidence

^ Research Society for Roads and Transport: Definitions, Part: Transport Planning, Road Design and Road Operation . FGSV Verlag, 2000, page 78.
↑ Traffic Telematics Guide . Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, 2005, accessed on December 16, 2017.
↑ Glossary of Traffic Management Switzerland , Federal Roads Office FEDRO, accessed on December 15, 2017.
↑ Duden - German Universal Dictionary . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91171-4 .
↑ ^a ^b Konrad Zilch, Claus Jürgen Diederichs, Rolf Katzenbach (eds.): Handbook for civil engineers. Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-662-07714-6 , pages 7-89 ff.

[1] Research Society for Roads and Transport: Definitions, Part: Transport Planning, Road Design and Road Operation . FGSV Verlag, 2000, page 78.

[2] Traffic Telematics Guide . Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, 2005, accessed on December 16, 2017.

[astra-3] Glossary of Traffic Management Switzerland , Federal Roads Office FEDRO, accessed on December 15, 2017.

[4] Duden - German Universal Dictionary . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91171-4 .

[Handbuch-5] Konrad Zilch, Claus Jürgen Diederichs, Rolf Katzenbach (eds.): Handbook for civil engineers. Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-662-07714-6 , pages 7-89 ff.