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• Roadway noise
  The intensity of roadway noise is governed by the following variables: [[traffic]] operations (speed, [[truck]] mix, age of [[vehicle]] fleet), roadway surf === Traffic operations ===
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• Polizia di Stato
  ...from the ''Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza'' ([[Department of Public Safety|Department of Public Security]]), and the keeping of public order. It is a ...00 officers, that is almost a quarter of police personnel, work within the Traffic Police (''Polizia Stradale''), Railroad Police (''Polizia Ferroviaria''), P
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• Driving
  ...[Driver's license]]''' and '''[[License plate]]'''), vehicle [[taxation]], safety inspections and compulsory [[insurance]]. These laws reflect the high degre ...el. Thus, in the Australian state of [[New South Wales]], the [[Roads and Traffic Authority]] (RTA) is responsible for driver licensing; [[highway]] construc
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• Car safety
  ...s for years, some for the safety of [[car]]'s occupants only, some for the safety of others. Road traffic injuries represent about 25% of worldwide injury-related deaths (the leadin
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• Passive safety
  ...s for years, some for the safety of [[car]]'s occupants only, some for the safety of others. Road traffic injuries represent about 25% of worldwide injury-related deaths (the leadin
  14 KB (2,151 words) - 17:35, 7 August 2009
• Tasso
  The taste of freedom - freedom to move with ease in traffic, free parking spaces in low, freedom of movement in narrow streets and hist === Reliability and Safety===
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• Mopeds
  ...fication is designed to allow the use of small motorised vehicles avoiding safety restrictions and licensing charges of larger [[motorcycles]]. Some [[motori ...lowed to carry more than one person. Mopeds are subject to all of the same traffic laws as other vehicles, and all riders must wear helmets.
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• Street racing
  ...rial areas of cities. It is illegal, as such driving is prohibited by many traffic regulations. Speeds in an illegal street race can reach easily over 100 mil ...stock cars happening late at night on straight public roads with very low traffic that are often illegally closed by the race organizers. (Professional drag
  6 KB (1,027 words) - 09:40, 8 October 2009
• Gotland Ring
  * Training and research-and-development centre for traffic safety
  3 KB (443 words) - 22:36, 14 June 2009
• Risk compensation
  ...ests that such an effect is seen in [[human]]s, associated with the use of safety features such as [[Automobile|car]] [[seat belt]]s and [[bicycle helmet]]s. The theory grew largely out of investigations of [[road safety]] interventions. It was noted that some interventions had failed to achieve
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• Daytime running lamp
  ...cting motorcycle safety, from certain DRL implementations. Nevertheless, a safety improvement is at least suggested by many studies. ...0s. Package text reads "Install Hella perception lights so you are seen in traffic".]]DRL were first mandated in [[Scandinavia]]n countries, where ambient lig
  10 KB (1,486 words) - 10:43, 8 October 2009
• Firestone
  ...Joan Claybrook, who was the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) during the Firestone scandal stated before the Trans
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• Anti-lock braking system
  A June 1999 [[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration|NHTSA]] study found that ABS increased stopping distances on ...braking force in this situation. Nevertheless, ABS significantly improves safety and control for drivers in on-road situations if they know not to release t
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• City car
  ...ter speed and occupant protection allow relatively safe operation in mixed traffic environments and in all weather conditions. Whilst it may be capable of ext ...an areas, ensures the unavailability of vehicles suitable for use in mixed traffic conditions that predominate in U.S. suburban areas.
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• Racing flags
  ...urns and relatively steep hills. Alternatively, some racecourses employ [[traffic light|flashing lights]] to supplement the primary flag at the start/finish ...ssing other cars is strictly prohibited, unless not passing would create a safety hazard.
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• Electronic Stability Control
  ...(backed up by the theory of [[risk compensation]]) that the perception of safety conferred by the ESC will encourage more dangerous driving, as seems to be ...he computing power of ESC facilitates the networking of active and passive safety systems on the car, creating the opportunity to address still more causes o
  11 KB (1,566 words) - 09:26, 7 October 2009
• Automobile safety
  ...occurrence and consequences of [[automobile accident]]s. ([[Road traffic safety]] more broadly includes roadway design.) ...the employer providing the vehicle generally plays a major role in setting safety, maintenance, and training policy. As in non-occupational driving, young dr
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• Sebring Raceway
  ...an [[Sebring Regional Airport|active airport]] for private and commercial traffic. ...moved due to a lack of runoff, and replaced with what became known as the "safety pin". Gendebien Bend was also reprofiled to slow the cars' entry to the Ul
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• Mount Panorama Circuit
  ...ever, the factors that make the track so unusual, and tighter contemporary safety standards, make it unlikely that major race meetings in these categories wi ...61 laps would otherwise be 1000.293 km, it also has the added benefit that traffic does not go too far around Murray's Corner, while the finish line is undern
  9 KB (1,477 words) - 10:24, 14 June 2009
• Microcar
  ...gulations ensures the unavailability of vehicles suitable for use in mixed traffic conditions that predominate in U.S. suburban areas. To supporters of electr
  7 KB (1,049 words) - 23:10, 7 August 2009

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