noun · neutral
traffic flow
/ˈtræf.ɪk floʊ/TRAFFIC FLOW
Band 5-6task1speakingtask2
the movement and rate of vehicles on a road or network
Examples
“Improving traffic flow on the highway reduced commute times.”
“Roadworks disrupted traffic flow for several weeks.”
“Signal timing is adjusted to smooth traffic flow during peak hours.”
Band 8 sentence
“Optimising signal timings and removing bottlenecks significantly improved traffic flow across the city.”
Collocations
- improve traffic flow
- disrupt traffic flow
- smooth traffic flow
Word family
flow noun / verbfluid adjective
Common mistakes
traffic flows→traffic flow
improve the traffic→improve traffic flow
Say it for a higher band
5traffic flows→6traffic movement→7+traffic flow
Synonyms
traffic movement
Easily confused
traffic jam
“Engineers aimed to improve traffic flow so that traffic jams would become less frequent.”
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