Traffic Control

Traffic control may refer to:

  • Air traffic control, a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft
  • Network traffic control, the manipulation of network traffic to avoid network congestion or to ensure quality of service in telecommunications
    • See also Traffic shaping in computer networks.
  • Road traffic control, directing vehicular and pedestrian traffic around a construction zone, accident or other road disruption
  • Traffic control in shipping lanes
  • Urban (peak-hour) traffic management

Famous quotes containing the words traffic and/or control:

    “If you don’t have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?”
    —John C. White (b. 1924)

    “The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)