Exchange traffic
The word exchange traffic describes three facts:
- A type of traffic - especially in transit traffic - in which the journey to loading or to boarding or alighting on the transit route is interrupted.
- Alternating traffic in both directions at bottlenecks in road or rail traffic, e.g. B. on branch lines or at construction sites . The scheme can
- take place on sight for short distances (traffic sign " Oncoming traffic has priority"),
- through a signal box or by waiting in the train station ,
- via radio with or without a supervising person,
- by setting up a bottleneck signaling .
- A form of tariff in passenger transport in which companies with different tariff provisions are involved, for example for a trip from Hamburg to Amrum with the participation of Deutsche Bahn , neg and Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei
It also occurs with reference to bills of exchange in the financial sense.