Right-of-way
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Right-of-way may refer to:
In geography:
- An easement that permits one to travel across the real property of another, or the strip of land subject to such an easement. A right-of-way may confer rights to an individual (such as a neighbor), entity (such as a railroad) or the public as a whole.
- Rights of way in the United Kingdom: footpaths, bridleways, byways and roads where such an easement exists
- Right-of-way (railroad): an easement or strip of land granted to a railway to build a line
In transportation:
- Traffic: Priority/right of way, the concept whereby one road user has the right of use of a section of road to the exclusion of another road user with a competing claim
- Related traffic signs: Yield/Give way sign, Stop sign, Priority signs
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: Section II (for vessels in sight of one another), for ships
- Visual flight rules, for aircraft
In other fields:
- Fencing: right of way, the first person to properly execute an attack has priority
- Right of Way (album), the first album released by Ferry Corsten under his own name.