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bus traffic

2.3

The movement of buses along a road or route

noun
/bʌs ˈtræfɪk/

: tráfico de autobuses

To improve safety, the school zone will have measures to reduce bus traffic during pick-up times.

Examples

The primary purpose of the vehicular piazza is to direct automobile and bus traffic to other parts of the city or to serve as a parking lot.

Academic text (1994)
The city implemented new traffic signals to better manage bus traffic near the downtown area.
Their chief function then is to serve as parking lots or to funnel automobile and bus traffic.

Academic text (1994)
During rush hour, the bus traffic on Main Street can become quite heavy.

Antonyms

congestion

37 3.4

Too many people or vehicles in one place that slow movement

How Heavy

congestion

37 3.4

bus traffic

2.3

Surface Forms

bus traffic singular

bus traffics plural

Morphology

bus + traffic

The meaning is directly compositional: 'bus' (a data/electrical conductor) + 'traffic' (volume or flow) yields the sense 'volume or rate of data on the bus'. Although it's a technical computing term, the same logic applies in everyday compounds like 'network traffic' or 'road traffic', so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Bus traffic comes from the image of many buses on a road moving or waiting at stops. When buses crowd a street they slow each other down, so bus traffic means the 'flow or movement' of buses in an area.