Traffic Engineering

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Traffic Engineering
507 Telfair St.
Augusta, Georgia 30901
Phone: (706) 821-1841
Fax: (706) 821-1724
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Michael E. Edwards
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Signals

A traffic control signal (Traffic Signal) is a type of highway traffic signal by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
Traffic control signals are described as either pre-timed or traffic-actuated.
Under pre-timed control duration of red, green and yellow intervals are predetermined.
Under traffic-actuated control, the duration of green intervals varies according to traffic demands.
Traffic control signals are valuable devices for control of vehicle and pedestrian traffic and usually have one or more of the following advantages.
They provide for orderly movement of traffic.
They can increase the traffic handling capacity of an intersection.
They can reduce the frequency of certain types of accidents, especially the right-angle type.
They can be coordinated to provide for continuous or nearly continuous movement of traffic at a definite speed along a given route.
They can be used to interrupt heavy traffic at intervals to permit other traffic, vehicular or pedestrian, to cross.

Data Source: ( Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices)