Traffic post (VP) is the service, which officially a representative performs, in order to direct the traffic (vehicles and pedestrian). The VP serves for to security and ease of traffic.

This can be with defects of the Lichtzeichenanlagen (malfunctioning or loss), with missing road signs (e.g. damaged by accident) or with handicaps of the flow of traffic by back-up or accidents the case.

VP are too secondly or too third active. The traffic management in the traffic is accomplished primarily by police execution officials. Also field hunters of the German Federal Armed Forces, as well as in Bavaria also and member of the technical welfare organization can accomplish a traffic regulation in cases of application. These can close however only roads or set bypasses.

The indications and instructions, which are given to the road users, are to be obeyed.

Indication

Indications are given with defined hand movements:

• Lateral stretching of an arm or both arms transverse to the driving direction: " Stop before the crossing ". Transverse traffic is approved. If the official gave this indication, then it applies away, as long as it signs in the same direction or maintains only its basic position. Approved traffic can bend 9 StVO after the rules "§, to the left however only, if it does not obstruct rail-mounted vehicles thereby.
• Raise an arm: " Wait before the crossing for the next indication ", for road users in the crossing: " Crossing vacate ".

These indications can be supplemented or changed by single instructions.

In other road places, like at inlets and at pedestrian crossings, the indications have appropriate meaning.

Until into the 1970er years this from a landing was settled.

Legal bases is "§ 36 exp. 1 of road traffic regulations, as well as the Bavarian additional clauses to the StVO.

Building workers warn traffic by swivelling red-white flags and may when available permission road user to other road sections refer or for stopping ask.

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