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Warrants for the use of traffic signals

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Highway Traffic Analysis and Design
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A decision to use signal control in urban areas in preference to roundabout control or as a means of increasing traffic capacity at priority intersections may be made from the overall viewpoint of traffic management when urban computer control is being implemented.

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  1. R.D. Hall, Accidents at Four Arm Single Carriageway Urban Traffic Signals, Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Contractors’ Report 65 (1986)

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  2. Department of Transport, Pedestrian facilities at traffic signal installations, Advice Note TA/15/81, London (1981)

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© 1996 Y. Salter and N. B. Hounsell

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Salter, R.J. (1996). Warrants for the use of traffic signals. In: Highway Traffic Analysis and Design. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13423-6_29

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