vehicle traffic
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- noun
- /ˈviːɪkl ˈtræfɪk/
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tráfico de vehículos
- During rush hour, vehicle traffic on the highway can become very heavy.
- motor vehicle traffic
- lanes of vehicle traffic
- vehicle traffic, with parked cars
Examples
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The construction work caused delays in vehicle traffic throughout the city.
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Mind you, 42nd Street is a 42-foot wide, very smooth roadway with limited parking utilization and a 30 mile-per-hour speed limit, so it should hardly be surprising that the vast majority of vehicle traffic travels.
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Um, sir, a military drone has picked up some movement in a sector that hasn't seen vehicle traffic in months.
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Local street: paved city street with no demarcated lanes of motor vehicle traffic; car parking may be allowed or not.
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Between stops, the pods could ride above vehicle traffic, allowing for widespread use with minimal impact on city traffic.
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This is simply unsupported by 100 years of data we have in the planning community; if you put in more parking, you will increase vehicle traffic.
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Paved city street with at least 2 demarcated moving lanes of motor vehicle traffic, with parked cars on the cyclist's side of the street.
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Before having made them, this core part of the city was gradually spiraling down into a hopeless mire of motor vehicle traffic.
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Both air and noise pollution are associated with motor vehicle traffic, and recent studies have reported possible associations between children's cognition and road traffic noise (Clark and Stansfeld 2007).
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Completing the trail, Watanabe's report says, "would have significant adverse impacts in the form of traffic hazards along the Shilshole Segment because of conflicts between truck movements and the other vehicle traffic and trail users along the Segment."
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Synonyms
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The movement and flow of vehicles on roads
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The movement of cars and trucks on roads
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'vehicle' (motorized/wheeled machine) combined with 'traffic' (flow or volume on roads) yields 'the flow of vehicles', which B1 learners can infer from the constituents. This noun-noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of specifying the type of traffic, so the sense is immediately understandable to someone who knows both words.
Etymology
Vehicle traffic gives a clear picture: lines of vehicles, like cars and trucks, moving together as traffic on a road. This image explains why the phrase means the 'flow' or 'movement' of vehicles in a place at a certain time.