Patent ID: 7491009
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: E01C

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture for use in an intersection between two roads, the intersection having one or more traffic indicators to control the flow of traffic through the intersection, the one or more traffic indicators collectively having one or more traffic indicator phases, each traffic indicator phase specifying the traffic allowed to flow through the intersection during that traffic indicator phase, the intersection including: one or more A lanes for traffic proceeding in direction A; one or more A-prime lanes for traffic proceeding in direction A-prime, substantially opposite direction A; one or more B lanes for traffic proceeding in direction B intersecting the A lanes and the A-prime lanes; one or more B-prime lanes for traffic proceeding in direction B-prime, substantially opposite direction B; a protected turn-around lane situated between the B lanes and the B-prime lanes, the protected turn-around lane being reached by turning from the A lanes to the B lanes, the protected turn-around lane allowing traffic proceeding in direction B to turn around and proceed in direction B-prime; and the protected turn-around lane providing for a protected turn from the A lanes to the B-prime lanes without having a traffic indicator phase dedicated to protecting such a turn.