Design
This geometric design term sight distance required for drivers to feel comfortable about making a passing maneuver.
What is passing sight distance?
After serving as the 32nd mayor of South Bend Indiana, this person served as Secretary of Transportation under Joe Biden.
Who is Pete Buttigieg?
Lying due east of I-55, this Tennessee airport is the home to FedEx's global superhub.
What is Memphis International Airport?
In a traditional four-step model, this is the process of pairing generated productions and attractions to determine the number of trips between all pairs of zones in the study area.
What is trip distribution?
This roadway lane dedicated for use by vehicles with multiple people, typically as a physically-separated lane on a freeway or other limited-access facility.
What is an HOV lane?
These roadway types serves major activity centers and are the highest traffic volume corridors outside of Interstates.
What are principal arterials?
This pioneering traffic engineer formulated a relationship between traffic flow, speed, and density.
Who is Bruce Greenshield?
The Transportation Research Board hosts its annual conference in this US city.
Where is Washington, DC?
In a traditional four-step model, this is the process of estimating trip productions (or origins) and attractions (or destinations) for all zones in the study area.
What is trip generation?
This metric uses a six-lettered scale to evaluate traffic flow ranging from free-flowing conditions to congested conditions.
What is LOS (Level of Service)?
In signal design, this is the movement for each phase that requires the most green time.
What is critical movement?
A two-time graduate of the University of Tennessee, this person is the current president of the Southern District of ITE.
Who is Chris Kirby?
I-65 connects the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, intersecting with I-40 and I-24 in this Tennessee city along the way.
What is Nashville?
This type of trip assignment assures that no traveler can improve their travel time by unilaterally changing routes.
What is user-equilibrium assignment?
This lettered factor is the proportion of Average Annual Daily Traffic occurring in the peak hour.
What is K-Factor?
In signal timing, this is the time during which a given traffic movement or set of movements may proceed at saturation flow rate. It is equal to the cycle length minus the effective red time
What is effective green time?
One of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, his name is the namesake of this Bay Area university.
Who is Leland Stanford?
This Mississippi city on the Gulf of Mexico will be home to the next SDITE meeting in 2026.
What is Biloxi?
In a travel model, this is the monetary amount that a traveler would be willing to spend to save one unit of time.
What is value of time?
This lettered-factor is the proportion of the design hour volume occurring in the heavier direction, and is also called the Directional Split.
What is a d-factor?
In geometric design, this is the inclined roadway cross-section that employs the weight of a vehicle in the generation of the necessary centripetal force for curve negotiation.
What is superelevation?
This traffic engineer's name is often used as an alternative name for pedestrian scrambles.
Who is Henry Barnes?
Opened in 2023, the Skyline in this city is the most recent heavy rail transit system to open in the United States.
Where is Honolulu?
This type of travel model blends attributes of macro and microscopic travel models.
What is a mesoscopic model?
This test of statistical significance is calculated by dividing a variable's estimated coefficient by its standard error.
What is a t-test?