Transportation Planning
This resource for transportation planning is published by ITE.
What is the Transprotation Planning Handbook, 4th ed?
This is the more common name for the manual A Policy on Geometric Design of Highway and Streets.
What is the Green Book?
This is the overarching concept of designing infrastructure to serve bikes, pedestrians, transit users, and vehicles equally.
What is complete streets?
This type of flow describes when the departure rate of vehicles is greater than the arrival rate.
What is undersaturated flow?
DAILY DOUBLE
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These are the four steps/components in a trip-based model.
What are Trip Generation, Trip Distribution, Mode Choice, Route Choice?
These are the three most important types of safety data.
What are crashes, traffic volume, and road characteristics?
Edge Zone, Furnishing Zone, Throughway Zone, and Frontage Zone all refer to zones on this part of a typical street.
What is a sidewalk?
This letter corresponds to the Level of Service (LOS) for unstable flow where the system is operating exactly at capacity.
What is E?
The Trip Generation Manual is often used in conjunction with this ITE resource to estimate demand for transportation studies.
What is the Parking Gen Manual?
Transportation demand is often referred to as being this type of demand.
What is derived demand?
These are installed in rural locations to alert drivers that they are running off the road.
What are rumble strips?
This is the recommended minimum width of a bicycle lane.
What is 5 feet (1.5m)?
The AADT is multiplied by the K and D factors to obtain this metric, in vehicles per hour.
What is Directional Design-Hour Volume (DDHV)?
This is the amount of districts in ITE.
What is 11?
DAILY DOUBLE
What are Transportation Analysis Zones (TAZs)?
This FHWA scale is used to determine the severity of the crash by cost.
What is the KABCO scale?
By default, vehicular lanes in urban streets under 45mph should be this wide (in feet).
What is 10 feet?
This type of flow occurs when traffic flow has just passed through a bottleneck and is travelling at free-flow speed.
What is queue discharge flow?
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Where is Detroit, MI?
This type of trasnprotation modelling simulates trips at the household and individual level.
What are activity-based models?
These are the five types of road user groups.
What are vehicle drivers, trucks drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists?
The Xth highest hourly volume of the year is often used as the design volume.
What is 30?
These are the three operational parameters used to estimate performance measures for a transportation system.
What are speed, density, and delay?
Name one of the three people who received the title of ITE honorary member this year.
Who are Jonathan Upchurch, Michael Sanderson, and Michael Walton?