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Etymology and types. Congestion in St. Louis, Missouri, early 20th century. The word traffic originally meant "trade" (as it still does) and comes from the Old Italian verb trafficare and noun traffico. The origin of the Italian words is unclear.
The first forms of road transport were pack animals carrying goods over tracks that often followed game trails, such as the Natchez Trace. [1] In the Paleolithic Age, humans did not need constructed tracks in open country. The first improved trails would have been at fords, mountain passes and through swamps. [2]
May 30, 2024 · The word emerges from c. 1915 in city planning discussions of automobiles (traffic engineer), earlier it was used in reference to police work on city streets (traffic-regulating policeman is by 1901).
Nov 8, 2009 · As with any field of human activity, what matters here is what came first: the first traffic rules, the first road sign, the first ticket issued to someone for breaking the rules, the first...
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The earliest known use of the adjective traffic is in the 1990s. OED's earliest evidence for traffic is from 1997, in Eng. is Asian Lang.: Proc. Conf. Manila, 1996. It is also recorded as a noun from the early 1500s.
Oct 19, 2017 · When exactly did traffic signs come about, though? Believe it or not, they actually date back all the way to ancient Rome. It just took many years before standardization led to the signs we know today.
When I got back in the office, I started thinking, “Where does traffic come from?” I came up with a few additional thoughts… Building anything increases traffic. And the increase is not linear — it depends on land use. Residences, offices, warehouses, retail — all have very different impacts on traffic.
