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  2. Road ecology - Wikipedia

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    New roads can divert traffic away from population centres thus relieving the noise pollution. A new road scheme planned in Shropshire, UK promises to reduce traffic noise in Shrewsbury town centre. In areas where most native forest has been cleared, roads can make it easier to move crops to market and import fertilizers.

  3. Interchange (road) - Wikipedia

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    The High Five in Dallas, Texas.This is a complicated five-level stack interchange, due to the proximity of frontage roads and segregated high-occupancy vehicle lanes.This hybrid design is based on parts of a four-level stack for highways, with a three-level-diamond interchange to handle the frontage roads.

  4. Stack interchange - Wikipedia

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    A directional interchange is a grade separated junction between two roads where all turns that require crossing over or under the opposite road's lanes of travel to complete the turn utilize ramps that make a direct or semi-direct connection. The difference between direct and semi-direct connections is how much the motorist deviates from the ...

  5. Health and environmental impact of transport - Wikipedia

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    This communication between vehicles reduces congestion on the roads and reduce drag, increasing fuel savings by 10 to 20%. [45] With these tech implementations in major cities and towns, there is the ability to reach an optimal level of pollution given the rise of e-commerce shipments.

  6. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Diamond interchange An interchange between a freeway and a minor road where the off-ramp diverges only slightly from the freeway and runs directly across the minor road at an at-grade intersection, becoming an on-ramp that returns to the freeway in similar fashion. Directional interchange. See stack interchange. Distributor road. See collector road

  7. Green highway - Wikipedia

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    Green Highways Partnership (GHP) is an alliance of Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), other Federal agencies, State transportation and environmental agencies, industry, trade associations, members of academia, and contractors to encourage environmentally friendly road building.

  8. ‘Diverging diamond’ coming to I-40 interchange south of ...

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    Don’t be confused at the new Jones Sausage Road interchange when you’re briefly driving on the wrong side of the road. ‘Diverging diamond’ coming to I-40 interchange south of Raleigh. What ...

  9. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    Geish Road: It runs between Helwan and Asyut, along the Nile, also connecting Beni Suef and Minya. Its length is 306 km (190 mi). Ring Road: It serves as an inner ring-road for Cairo. It has a length of 103 km (64 mi). Regional Ring Road: It serves as an outer ring road for Cairo, also connecting its suburbs like Helwan and 10th of Ramadan City ...