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Government Polytechnic Achalpur: Highway Engineering

Traffic control devices help regulate and guide traffic through signs, signals, markings, and physical structures. Signs communicate regulatory, warning, and informative messages through words and symbols. Signals use colored lights to control traffic at intersections. Markings delineate lanes and provide directional guidance on road surfaces. Physical structures like traffic islands, barriers, and channelizers are also used to direct traffic flow and increase safety. All of these devices aim to facilitate orderly traffic movement and prevent conflicts and crashes.

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Government Polytechnic Achalpur: Highway Engineering

Traffic control devices help regulate and guide traffic through signs, signals, markings, and physical structures. Signs communicate regulatory, warning, and informative messages through words and symbols. Signals use colored lights to control traffic at intersections. Markings delineate lanes and provide directional guidance on road surfaces. Physical structures like traffic islands, barriers, and channelizers are also used to direct traffic flow and increase safety. All of these devices aim to facilitate orderly traffic movement and prevent conflicts and crashes.

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Government polytechnic Achalpur

Highway Engineering

Topic:-Methods of Traffic Control


devices

Presented by

GAURI K KARWALE. 246


TRIPATI G NEWARE. 247
HARSHAL R RAWALE. 248
MANAS M SHARMA. 249
SHUBHAM G KEDAR. 250
INTRODUCTION
The various aids and device used to control,
regulate and guide traffic may be called
Traffic control devices
The general requirements of traffic control
devices are:
Attention, Time for response and respect of
road users
Types Of Traffic Control Devices
SIGNS SIGNALS MARKINGS ISLANDS

TRAFFIC SIGNS
They are of great help in regulating traffic
by improving message to the driver’s about
the need to stop give way and limit their
speeds.
Signs
Road signs provide local information to
drivers. Made from reflective material in
high-contrast colors, they are highly visible
in headlights at night. Signs may use words
and symbols to communicate meaning.

Regulatory signs
are the most important signs on the road.
They declare the accepted legal use of the
immediate public roadway.
Intersection control specifies proper
behavior when roads meet—signs like stop
or yield are essential for preventing conflict
and crashes. Speed limit changes are also
marked with signs. Traffic direction can be
specified, as in one way or no enter signs.
Allowable stops or parking spaces are
usually marked. Failure to follow regulatory
signs often constitutes a moving violation.

Warning signs
allow drivers to be aware of driving hazards
like animal crossings or twisting paths.
They’re installed for maximal safety.
INFORMATORY SIGNS
This signs are used to guide the road user
along routes, inform them to destination
distance and provide with information to
make travel easier, safe and plesent
SIGNALS
Traffic signals
in red, yellow, and green are ubiquitous
items in the traffic control landscape. To the
standard three lights may be added lane
indicators and other individual lane
markings. Flashing lights, either in a
traditional signal or hanging alone, are
common. However, they can have variable
meanings depending on the region and the
color. Steadily burning lights are often used
as warnings or mark hazards.
PEDESTRIANS SIGNAL
They are meant to give the right way to
pedestrian to cross a road during the “Walk
Period, when the vehicluar traffic shall be
stopped by red or stop signal on the traffic
signal of the road.

Road markings and road construction


Road design offers another vocabulary for
communicating with drivers.
MARKINGS
Road markings
like lines and arrows, are used to mark
correct legal usage of road surfaces. They
include stop lines, lane markers, turn lane
arrows, and more. Road markings like
“sharrows,” showing that bikes and
motorized vehicles share the road, notify
drivers about unexpected traffic patterns.
Types of Markings
• PAVEMENT MARKING
• KERB MARKING
• OBJECT MARKING
• REFLECTOR UNIT MARKING

1)PAVEMENT MARKING: They may


generally be of White paint. Yellow
marking are used to indicate parking
restrictions.
2) KERB MARKING: These may indicate
certain regulation like parking. Also the
marking on the Kerb and edges of the
island with alternate black and white line
increase the visibility from a long
distance
3)OBJECT MARKING:Physical obstruction
on or near the road hazardous and hence
Should be properly marked
4) REFLECT UNIT MARKING: Reflector
markers are used as hazard markers and
guide markers for safe driving during night.
Hazard markers reflecting yellow light
should be visible from a long distance about
150 m
Road construction
is also involved in traffic control. Rumble
strips can mark lanes. When a car drifts
over them, they alert through sound and
texture that the vehicle is no longer in its
lane. Rumble strips are often used in places
where drivers might miss a sharp bend in
the road, or on long stretches where a
driver might fall asleep. Other road
construction and environmental design
makes certain driving behaviors easier than
others. Speed humps and bumps, chicanes,
neckdowns, curb extensions, roundabouts
and more can encourage proper driver
behavior.
Barriers and channelizers
Barriers and channelizers also control
traffic, warn against hazards, and mitigate
accidents. There are many types.
Traffic delimiters and cones
are often placed temporarily to provide
warning around hazards or work zones.
Highway barriers
like standard Jersey barriers, help
prevent head-on collisions and mark
lanes. They can sometimes mitigate or
prevent shallow angle accidents by
returning a car to the roadway. Highway
barriers may be gated or non-gated,
either by cushioning an impact of a car
but letting it through or by stopping it all
together.
Channelizers and road barriers
whether barrels, curbs, or bollards, are
more permanent than traffic delimiters
or cones—though some may be
removable for multi-access spaces.
Flexible, crash-rated, or security bollards
are all used to guide traffic away from
certain areas. The crash-rated and
security types provide impact protection
that is very effective at stopping head on
or deep angle crashes.
TRAFFIC ISLANDS
Traffic islands are raised areas
constructed within the roadway to
establish physical channel through which
The vehicular traffic may be guided
There are four types of traffic islands
• DIVISION ISLAND
• CHANNELIZING ISLAND
• PEDESTRIAN LOADING ISLAND
• ROTARY ISLAND
1) DIVISION ISLAND: They are
intended to separate opposing flow
of traffic on a highway with four or
more lanes. By thus dividing the
highway into two one way
roadways, the head on collision
eliminated
2) CHANNELIZING ISLAND: They are
used to guide the traffic into proper
channel through the intersection
area. They are very useful as traffic
control devices for intersection at
grades, when area is larger
3) PEDESTRIAN LOADING ISLAND:
They are provided at regular bus
stops and similar places for the
protection of passenger
4) ROTARY ISLAND: It is the large
island of rotary intersection; this
island is much larger than the
central island of channelized island.
USE
Channelizing devices are used to warn
drivers and pedestrians and to guide
them through a work zone. Common
channelizing devices are traffic cones
and drums. These types of traffic control
devices are usually placed between
traffic and road construction zones, or
between opposing traffic streams.

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