Street Traffic Regulation: General Street Traffic Regulations - Special Street Traffic Regulations, Dedicated To The Traffic Squad Of The Bureau Of ... Police Department Of The City Of New York...
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Street Traffic Regulation: General Street Traffic Regulations - Special Street Traffic Regulations, Dedicated To The Traffic Squad Of The Bureau Of Street Traffic Of The Police Department Of The City Of New York
William Phelps Eno
The Rider and driver publishing co., 1909
Transportation; General; New York (N.Y.); Streets; Transportation; Transportation / General
The Science of Highway Traffic Regulation: 1899-1920... - Primary Source Edition
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The Science Of Highway Traffic Regulation: 1899-1920
William Phelps Eno
Brentano's, 1920
Law; General; Law / General; Traffic regulations; Transportation / General
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The Science Of Highway Traffic Regulation: 1899-1920
William Phelps Eno
Brentano's, 1920
Law; General; Law / General; Traffic regulations; Transportation / General
William Phelps Eno was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
Background
He was born in New York City, the fifth son and youngest of nine children of Lucy Jane (Phelps) and Amos Richards Eno. He came of old New England stock, being a direct descendant of James Enno, who emigrated about 1648 from England to Windsor, Connecticut, and of William Phelps, one of the first settlers of Windsor.
The conservationist Gifford Pinchot and his brother Amos Pinchot [Supp. 3] were Eno's nephews. His parents were both born in Simsbury, Connecticut, but later moved to New York City. There Amos Eno, a prominent banker and real estate developer, built the original Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Education
During William's youth his family traveled extensively, and by the time he entered Yale in 1878 he had attended some fifteen schools in Europe and America.
At the end of his junior year he contracted scarlet fever and withdrew from college.
In 1891, in response to a petition by his classmates, Yale awarded him the B. A. degree as of 1882.
Career
Following a prolonged period of recuperation, he went to work in his father's realty office. His true interest lay elsewhere, however. In his early travels he had been appalled by the chaotic traffic conditions he saw everywhere but in London, where good sense and common courtesy governed the movement of vehicles.
When his father died in 1898, leaving him an inheritance of a million dollars, Eno turned to the study of traffic. Automobiles were then a rarity, but Eno anticipated their future importance and began devising traffic regulations which would serve the long-term needs of American cities.
In 1902 he persuaded police authorities in New York City to implement the English block system, in which mounted officers regulated cross traffic at intersections. The following year he published Rules for Driving, a pamphlet which for the first time proposed a set of uniform laws for all vehicles, defining the word "vehicle" to include "equestrians and everything on wheels or runners, except street cars and baby carriages. "
His traffic code laid down basic rules for passing, turning, crossing, and stopping, as well as the use of hand signals and the right of way. The first comprehensive system of traffic regulation in the world, it was officially adopted in October 1903 by New York City.
Eno attacked other traffic problems in Paris over a period of years beginning in 1909. By distributing copies of a primer entitled "Le Probleme de la Circulation" among drivers and the police, and posting placards at stables, garages, and cab stands, he built up public support for a set of police regulations like those in New York and saw them go into effect in 1912.
By publishing the results of this research, and thereby educating the public, Eno hoped to accelerate the pace of traffic reform, the slowness of which he attributed to unimaginative, inexperienced, and, at times, meddlesome public officials.
Through his foundation, which in 1933 became affiliated with Yale University, Eno published several technical books, including Fundamentals of Highway Traffic Regulation (1926), Simplification of Highway Traffic (1929), and Uniformity in Highway Traffic Control (1941).
Yet his perspective was never purely technical. He early identified traffic reform with the broader fields of city planning and the reduction of pollution; and in the 1930's he waged a vigorous antinoise campaign, the major result of which was a ban in Paris on the use of automobile horns. He opposed, however, the use of traffic lights, considering them too inflexible, and continued to prefer the use of policemen to direct traffic.
Eno's white mustache and Vandyke beard gave him an imposing appearance. He received several honors, including election as honorary president of the National Highway Traffic Association (1935) and as a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (1937).
In 1938 Eno moved to Saugatuck, Connecticut. He died of bronchopneumonia at the Norwalk (Connecticut) General Hospital at the age of eighty-seven and was buried in Center Cemetery, Simsbury, Connecticut.
Achievements
He frequently served as a consultant to municipalities in Asia and Latin America, as well as in the United States and Europe. In 1912 he became chairman of the automobile regulations committee of the National Civic Federation.
During World War I, in addition to serving as director of the Home Defense League of the District of Columbia (his home from 1902 to 1938), Eno headed the committee on transportation of war workers of the War Industries Board, in which capacity he directed the transportation of influenza victims to temporary hospitals. At the same time he devised a traffic code for the Allied forces in France (also used in North Africa during World War II) which facilitated convoy movements and permitted the rapid passage of ambulances.
In 1921 he established at Saugatuck, Connecticut, the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Regulation, a nonprofit center for research in traffic engineering, highway design, and traffic enforcement.
Eno also advocated signal towers, uniform street signs, safety islands for pedestrians, clearly marked crosswalks, special plans to relieve congestion in theater and business districts, and clearly designated bus and streetcar stops.
His most noted contribution, perhaps, was his system of one-way rotary traffic for multiple intersections, which was first put into effect in 1905 at Columbus Circle in New York and later, in 1907, at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Membership
He was a member of Skull and Bones Society and the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Regulation.
He was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the first owner of the steam yacht Aquilo, built in Boston in 1901.
Connections
He was twice married: on April 4, 1883, to Alice Rathbone, who died in 1911, and on April 18, 1934, to Alberta (Averill) Paz, a widow; he had no children.
