Traffic management
Traffic management is a key branch within logistics. It concerns the planning, control and purchasing of transport services needed to physically move vehicles (for example aircraft, road vehicles, rolling stock and watercraft) and freight.
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Specialised Traffic Management Installation Vehicle
Traffic management is implemented by people working with different job titles in different branches:
- Within freight and cargo logistics: traffic manager, assessment of hazardous and awkward materials, carrier choice and fees, demurrage, documentation, expediting, freight consolidation, insurance, reconsignment and tracking
- Within air traffic management: air traffic controller
- Within rail traffic management: rail traffic controller, train dispatcher or signalman
- Within road traffic management: traffic controller
Traffic Control Management is the design, auditing and implementation of traffic control plans at worksites and civil infrastructure projects. Traffic Management can include: flagging, lane closures, detours, full freeway closures, pedestrian access, traffic plans, traffic management vehicles[1] and sidewalk closures.[2]
See also
- Air traffic control, a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft
- 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
References
- Traffic Management Vehicles, Advanced KFS Special Vehicles.
- Why Traffic Control is so important to the livelihood of your Community, City Rise Safety.
Beacon Traffic Management https://www.beacontm.co.uk/
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