TRAFFIC

MANAGEMENT
AND ACCIDENT
INVESTIGATION
with Driving
FUNDAMENTAL
OF TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT
Traffic Management

❑It is an executive function such as

planning, organizing, and directing,
supervising, coordinating, operating,
recording budgeting traffic affairs.
 Traffic Management

❑ It also refers to the activities undertaken

by a highway transportation agency to
improve roadway system safety,
efficiency, and effectiveness for both
providers and consumers of
transportation services.
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
❑ MANAGEMENT - Refers to the skillful use of means to
accomplish purpose.

❑ OPERATION - Pertains to a cause or series of acts to effect

certain purpose, manner of action; or a vital or natural process
of activity.

❑ ROADWAY – refers to that part of the traffic way over which

motor vehicles pass. For purposes of construction, repair,
and/or maintenance, roads are classified as:
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
➢ National Roads – interconnecting provinces and/or cities
➢ Provincial Roads – interconnecting municipalities and/or
cities within a province
➢ City Roads – interconnecting barangays with a city
➢ Municipal Roads – interconnecting barangays within a
municipality
➢ Barangay Roads – roads/streets located within a barangay
which connects sitios or places within a barangay.
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
➢ Sky way - A modern urban system of roadway above street
level for free flow of traffic
➢ Lane - one of the longitudinal strips from which the
carriageway can be divided whether or not defined by
longitudinal road markings.
➢ Highway- any public thoroughfare, public boulevard, avenue,
park alley, but shall not include roadway upon grounds owned
by private persons, colleges, universities, or other similar
institution.
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
➢ Subway - A conduit running entirely under the ground for fast
travel route of commuters.
➢ Overpass - Refers to a roadway passing through another
roadway
➢ Expressway -A through traffic for free-flow of vehicular
movement.
➢ Tunnel Road - A passage of wide section cut through hill to
shorten circuitous roadway.
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
➢ Feeder Road - Intended for farm-to market traffic.
➢ Shoulder – it refers to either side of the roadway, especially
along highways.
➢ Sidewalk - it refers to the paved walkway along the side of a
street.
➢ Through highway – it means every highway or portion thereof
on which vehicular traffic is given the right-of-way, and at the
entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways
is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such
through highway in obedience to either an authorized stop sign
or a yield sign, or other official traffic control device
 DEFENITION OF
TERMS
➢ Thruway or throughway – it is a highway that has limited
entrances and exits such as the expressways, freeways, or
motorways. It is known as autobahn in German

➢ Traffic way – refers to the entire width between boundary lines

of every way or place of which any part is open to the use of
the public for purposes of vehicular traffic as a matter of right
or custom.
 ROAD CLASSIFICATIONS

According to political subdivision

• NATIONAL ROADS - The main road as conduit
system with a right of way from 20 meters to 120
meters.
• PROVINCIAL ROADS - The linkages between two
municipalities with right of way from 15 meters to 60
meters.
• CITY ROADS -The inter-link between municipalities
and within the city proper with right of way of 15
meters.
• MUNICIPAL ROADS - All roads within the town
proper with the right of way of not less than 10 meters.
 INTERSECTION

➢ Refers to the area of a roadway created when two or more

roadways join together
 INTERSECTION
CLASSIFICATION OF INTERSECTION ACCORDING TO NUMNER OF
INTERSECTING ROADS
• 3-WAY
-It is commonly kwon as the T or Y crossroad
• 4-WAY
-It is the most common. Two roads cross perpendicularly
• 5- WAY
-It involves the crossing of five roads. This type is the least common
• 6-WAY
- It involves the crossing of three streets. This type is very rare
• STAGGERED INTERSECTION
- It involves two successive T crossroads.
 WHY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
IS NECESSARY?
In every traffic management, three elements are necessary to be considered.
These are:

• ROAD (TRAFFICWAY) SYSTEM

• ROAD USERS
• ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES

Failure to coordinate these elements in a particular highway and/or

intersection may cause traffic-related problems.
Traffic management aims to attain efficiency in the utilization of the
trafficway.
 MAJOR CAUSE OF TRAFFIC
CONGESTION

1. PHYSICAL INADEQUACY
2. POOR CONTROL MEASURES
3. HUMAN ERRORS
4. POOR MAINTENANCE
 PHYSICAL INADEQUACY

➢ This is characterized by lack of roads,

narrow bridges, railroad crossings, lack of
traffic facilities and etc.
 POOR CONTROL MEASURES

➢ This is characterized by ineffective

mechanical control devices, inefficient
traffic orders, and poor implementation of
traffic laws, rules and regulation.
 HUMAN ERRORS

➢ Many traffic congestion are caused by slow

drivers or poor driving habits, pedestrian
mistakes, officer’s errors, poor planning,
poor legislation; and traffic accidents
which are mostly attributed to human
errors
 POOR MAINTENANCE

➢ Oftentimes motor vehicles are stalled in

traffic ways because of unrepaired
diggings, cracks on road pavement or
unfinished road pavement concreting.
 SPECIFIC TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS

1. Traffic Build-up -It is characterized by the gradual increasing of traffic

users in a given portion of the highway or traffic way.
2. Traffic Congestions - These are conditions on road networks that occurs
as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times and
increased vehicular queueing.
3. Traffic Jams (snarl-up) - These are situations in highways in which the
movement of traffic users (MVS and pedestrians) is very slow or stationary.
4. Bottlenecks - These are narrow points or areas in highways where traffic
congestions or traffic jams usually occur or traffic may be held up.
 SPECIFIC TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS

5. Gridlocks - A state or condition of severe road congestion arising when

continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets
bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill.
6. Accidents - These are events or incidents which may cause unintentional
damage to property, loss of limbs, and or death.
7. Collisions - These are incidents or instances of one moving traffic unit or
person striking violently against another.
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