Traffic
v. i. 1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another
for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter;
to trade.
[imp. & p. p. Trafficked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking .]
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
v. t. 1. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a
consideration.
n. 1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange
of goods and commodities; trade.
A merchant of great traffic through the world.
- Shak.
The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.
- Macaulay.
2. Commodities of the market.
You 'll see a draggled damsel
From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
- Gay.
3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with
reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.Traffic
return
a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers,
as on a railway line.
Traffic taker
a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line,
etc.
Noun 1. traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles)
coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period
of time
2. traffic - buying and selling; especially illicit trade
3. traffic - the amount of activity over a communication system
during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the
trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during
the night"
4. traffic - social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
Synonyms: dealings
Verb 1. traffic - deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
2. traffic - trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with
us for gold"
TRAFFIC. Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills,
money and the like.
To dream that you are in traffic, signifies frustrations in life
and that things are not going as smoothly as you would like it to.
You feel stuck at where you are in life.
This article is about Vehicular traffic. For other meanings of "Traffic"
see Traffic (disambiguation).
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Organized traffic
Western vehicular traffic is generally organized, flowing in lanes
of travel for a particular direction, with interchanges, traffic
signals, and/or signage at intersectons to facilitate the orderly
and timely flow of traffic. Vehicles also generally travel at the
same speed on a given roadway.
Organized traffic typically reduces travel time. Though vehicles
wait at some intersections, wait time at others is much shorter.
Organized traffic degenerates to disorganized with an unexpected
occurrence, be it road construction, an accident, or an animal obstructing
the road. On particularly busy freeways, a disruption can persist
until traffic thins. William Beaty observed persistent disruptions
and named the phenomenon traffic waves.
Simulations
of organized traffic frequently involve queuing theory and stochastic
processes.
Unorganized traffic Unorganized traffic occurs in the absence of
lanes and/or signals. Roads do not have lanes, though operators
tend to keep to the appropriate side if the road is wide enough.
Operators frequently overtake other operators, and obstructions
are not uncommon.
Intersections have no signals or signage, and a particular road
at a busy intersection may be dominant (that is, its traffic flows)
until a break in traffic, at which time the dominance shifts to
the other road where vehicles are queued. At the intersection of
two perpendicular roads, a traffic jam results if four vehicles
face each other side-on.
Which side? Brian Lucas answers the question, "Which side of
the road do they drive on?" About 34% of the world by country
population drives on the left, and 66% keeps right. By roadway miles,
about 72% drive on the right.
See alsoTransport
Rules of the road
Traffic psychology
Traffic congestion
External linksWhich
side of the road do they drive on?
Traffic Waves
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