The volume of vehicles passing through a geographic area, corridor, or neighborhood without originating or stopping there. Traffic engineers often implement calming measures or bypass routes to divert these vehicles away from residential streets. Managing this flow is critical for reducing local congestion, noise, and wear on secondary roads.
Heard on the job
We need to install traffic calming measures on 4th Street to discourage through traffic from bypassing the highway.
Also heard as
- transient traffic