William Phelps Eno

William Phelps Eno ( born June 3, 1858 in New York City; † December 3, 1945 ) was an American businessman and pioneer of road safety.

Eno came from a resident of Simsbury, Connecticut, respected and wealthy family of businessmen and politicians. He was the son of Amos Richards Eno, who had been generated by real estate transactions in New York a fortune. Eno graduated in 1882 at Yale University where he was a member of the influential Association of Skull and Bones. Until 1899, he also worked in the real estate industry. It was not until 40 years he devoted himself entirely to road safety. 1900 Eno published a paper entitled Reform in Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed. In 1903 he designed the Road Traffic Regulations ( city traffic code) for New York, a pioneering achievement. He worked out of traffic plans for New York, London and Paris and developed over decades a wealth of relevant publications. Eno be attributed to the following innovations: the stop sign, pedestrian crossing, the one-way street, the traffic circle, the taxi stand and the traffic island. In 1921 he founded the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control, today Eno Transportation Foundation, a nonprofit foundation to promote road safety. He was an honorary member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Eno was an avid rider, but never had a driver's license.