4,460 articles
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (Carretera Panamericana) is a network of national highways from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, considered the world's longest and broken only by the Darién Gap.
Panel truck
A panel truck is a small light-duty commercial vehicle with a fully enclosed, windowless body for delivering goods, common from 1928 until replaced by cargo vans.
Panel van
A panel van, also known as a blind van, is a light commercial vehicle for carrying goods, with solid panels where passenger vehicles have side and rear windows.
Pannier
A pannier is a bag or rigid case carried on either side of a bicycle or motorcycle, holding cargo low and to the sides rather than on the rider's back.
Panoz Esperante
The Panoz Esperante is a hand-built, aluminum two-seat sports car produced by Panoz in Hoschton, Georgia from 2000 into the late 2000s, powered by Ford V8 engines.
Panther tank
The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V, was a German medium tank of the Second World War, developed in response to the Soviet T-34 and first used at Kursk in 1943.
Panzerjäger I
The Panzerjäger I, German for "tank hunter I", was Germany's first series-produced tank destroyer, mounting a Czech 4.7 cm anti-tank gun on a Panzer I chassis in 1940.
Parallel parking
Parallel parking is the method of parking in line with the road by reversing into a curbside gap between vehicles, valued in dense cities but widely considered difficult.
PARAMICS
PARAMICS is a microscopic traffic simulation package modeling individual vehicles on road networks, developed at the University of Edinburgh and now sold as Paramics Discovery by SYSTRA.
Parc Infantil de Trànsit
Parc Infantil de Trànsit (children's traffic park; parque infantil de tráfico) is a signposted miniature road circuit where children learn road safety by riding bicycles, karts, or scooters; Barcelona's Guàrdia Urbana facility at Montjuïc Castle served 5,805 pupils in 2021-2022, and the Spanish model dates to Madrid in 1962.
Paris Motor Show
The Paris Motor Show, or Mondial de l'Auto, is a biennial automobile exhibition in Paris, first held in 1898 and staged at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
Park and ride
A park and ride, also written Park & Ride or P+R, is a parking lot where travelers leave their cars and continue by bus or rail.
Parking brake
The parking brake, also called the hand brake or park brake, is a mechanism that holds a stationary vehicle, typically on the rear wheels by lever, pedal, or electric switch.
Parking lot
A parking lot, called a car park outside North America, is a paved off-street area for temporarily parking motor vehicles, as distinct from a parking garage.
Parking sensor
A parking sensor is a proximity sensor fitted to a vehicle, typically an ultrasonic transducer in the bumper, that warns the driver of nearby obstacles during low-speed maneuvers.
Parking space
A parking space, also called a parking spot, is a designated area where a single vehicle may be parked, whether on a street or off it. It is among the most widespread infrastructure.
PASSER
PASSER, short for Progression Analysis and Signal System Evaluation Routine, is a family of traffic signal timing programs from the Texas Transportation Institute that optimizes coordinated timings by maximizing progression bandwidth.
Patrol Police of Ukraine
The Patrol Police of Ukraine (Патрульна поліція України) is the road-patrol and first-response unit of the National Police of Ukraine, created in 2015 to replace the Soviet-era traffic police.
Paul Jr. Designs
Paul Jr. Designs is an American custom motorcycle firm founded by Paul Teutul Jr. in 2009 after leaving Orange County Choppers, known from the series American Chopper.
Paul Teutul Jr.
Paul Teutul Jr., also known as Paul Michael Teutul, is an American custom motorcycle designer and television personality best known for American Chopper and Orange County Choppers.
Paul Teutul Sr.
Paul Teutul Sr. (Paul John Teutul, born 1949) is an American motorcycle designer and television personality who founded Orange County Choppers in 1999 and starred in American Chopper.
Pavement condition index
The pavement condition index (PCI) is a 0-to-100 rating of pavement surface condition, developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and standardized in ASTM D6433.
Pavement preservation
Pavement preservation is a program of planned, cost-effective treatments applied to existing pavements, chiefly while still in good condition, to extend service life and improve safety without adding structural capacity.
Péage (autoroute toll system)
The péage is the toll system that finances France's motorway network: the State owns the roads and private concessionaires collect tolls at barriers or by electronic tolling.
Pedestrian crossing
A pedestrian crossing, or crosswalk, is a designated point on a roadway where people on foot are entitled to cross, ranging from painted stripes to signal-controlled facilities.
Pedestrian hybrid beacon
The pedestrian hybrid beacon (PHB), first developed as the HAWK in Tucson, Arizona, in the late 1990s, is a traffic device that lets pedestrians cross busy roads safely.
Pedestrian refuge island
A pedestrian refuge island is a raised median in the center of a road where pedestrians can stand while crossing one direction of traffic at a time.
Peel P50
The Peel P50 is a single-seat, three-wheeled microcar built by Peel Engineering on the Isle of Man between 1962 and 1965, listed by Guinness as the smallest production car ever made.
Pelican crossing
A pelican crossing is a British push-button signal-controlled pedestrian crossing, introduced in 1969, named from PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled crossing and marked by a flashing amber phase for drivers.
Peloton Technology
Peloton Technology was a Silicon Valley company founded in 2012 that developed truck platooning systems for semi-trucks, reaching fleet customers before ceasing operations in 2021.