All-Way Stop
INT-AWS-04 Situational / Discouraged Intersections & Crossings
All-Way Stop
An intersection where every approach carries a stop sign, with right-of-way determined by arrival order.
Typical at: Suburban Compact
Rural and Urban are edge cases. Undeveloped and Core are unlikely pairings.
#Design notes
All-Way Stop tapers off past Compact and Urban density, as intersection volumes exceed what stop control can handle safely. This is the same taper logic that applies to Stop/Yield control, just shifted one tier higher on the density range.1
#Related patterns
Stop / Yield (Two-Way) (INT-SYD-05) (explicitly named on this page as sharing the same density-taper logic, one tier lower), Neighborhood Traffic Circle / Mini-Roundabout (ELM-NTC-46) (a control type this pattern sometimes replaces at a Local intersection)
#References
- Legal / regulatory Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (FHWA, December 2025; effective March 5, 2026), Section 2B.13-2B.17.(opens in new tab)
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