What's the difference between roadway and traffic?

Roadway


Definition:

  • (n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
  • (2) Last year, Russia built a major roadway in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, in time for it to host an annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum.
  • (3) This paper investigates the injury mechanisms of occupants of pickup trucks and the surfaces that the occupants contact in roadway accidents.
  • (4) The outcome confirms and expands upon conclusions derived from less formal studies about how drivers perceive other roadway users.
  • (5) But this primitive security measure was not enough to deter the IRA from launching a mortar attack on John Major’s cabinet from a Ford Transit van from the roadway on the other side of Downing Street.
  • (6) During the summer of 1987, we investigated a series of firearm assaults occurring on Los Angeles County (California) roadways.
  • (7) The case is presented of a 26-year-old male who was injured whilst resting in the rear of a moving vehicle that left the roadway and rolled in remote central Australia.
  • (8) Schools, financial markets and government offices were closed on Tuesday as flooding on major roadways made travel impossible.
  • (9) Sheriff's dispatch said early Saturday that the roadway had been reopened, but the office did not have any information on the stranded cars.
  • (10) Safety belt effectiveness for drivers is higher in single-car crashes than in multiple-vehicle crashes, but does not depend much on a variety of other vehicle factors (for example, car size), accident factors (travel speed), roadway factors (posted speed limit), and environmental factors (light versus dark).
  • (11) For children who were over five years of age, accidents on the roadway as pedestrians (58% of deaths) and pedal-cyclists (20% of deaths) were the most-common causes of death.
  • (12) ‘A monstrous and useless folly’ The Lower Manhattan Expressway was an effort to tie up the loose ends of local roadways by extending Interstate 78 – all 10 lanes of it – from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.
  • (13) In Japan, where many people in large cities have been living near major roadways, the increase of automobile exhaust due to heavy traffic congestion will predictably cause a greater impact on people living near major roadways.
  • (14) Though Davis said on Tuesday her relationship with God precluded her duty as clerk to issue marriage licenses, she told the Moorehead News after winning the race last November: “[I] will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter.” A town of about 6,800, Morehead is situated along a roadway, about 65 miles from the city of Lexington.
  • (15) An association between increase in pollutant levels and the distance from the roadway was observed.
  • (16) Throughout the morning, cleanup crews struggled to remove fallen trees and branches from major roadways.
  • (17) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
  • (18) The prevalence rate of respiratory symptoms was higher in those areas nearest roadways with heavy traffic both in children and adults.
  • (19) In Missouri, the state Department of Transportation warned that most major roadways were snow-covered, it was too cold for rock salt to be very effective and the wind was whipping, causing whiteout conditions.
  • (20) Robert Moses News of the proposed roadway provoked alarm.

Traffic


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • (v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
  • (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
  • (v.) Commodities of the market.
  • (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
  • (2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
  • (5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
  • (6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
  • (9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
  • (11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
  • (12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
  • (13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
  • (14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
  • (15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
  • (16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
  • (17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
  • (18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
  • (19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
  • (20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.