Traffic management

 Traffic management

Traffic management is the organisation, arrangement, guidance and control of both stationary and moving traffic, including pedestrians, bicyclists and all types of vehicles. Its aim is to provide for the safe, orderly and efficient movement of persons and goods, and to protect and, where possible, enhance the quality of the local environment on and adjacent to traffic facilities. For effective traffic management, it is essential that the practitioner works from factual information. Road inventory and statistical methods, and the more common types of traffic studies, including traffic volume and composition, origin and destination, speed, travel time and delay, accidents and parking are essential.  "Before and after" studies, and estimation of future traffic are also considered. In order to apply traffic management techniques logically, it is necessary to develop a classification or hierarchy of all roads to ensure that the primary purpose of each of them is defined, agreed and understood. The various aspects of traffic management include signing and delineation, pedestrian facilities, bicycle facilities, intersections, traffic signals, road capacity, parking, roadside safety and roadway lighting.