2026 Clue References
Traffic Engineering Fundamentals
MUTCD
Abbreviations
ITE Western District
100

This is the number of official clue resources.

What is 9?

100

Flow rate is assigned this letter variable in the fundamental traffic equation.

What is Q?

100

This tool is used to evaluate the necessity of a traffic signal at an intersection.

What is a warrant?

100

FHWA

What is the Federal Highway Administration?

100

This is the location of the 2026 Western District Annual Meeting.

What is Bellevue, WA?

200

Clues about traffic engineering come from this resource produced by ITE.

What is the Transportation Engineering Handbook?

200

This term refers to the time between successive vehicles crossing a detector, measured from the same point on each vehicle.

What is headway?

200

These are two types of signs that exclusively use red and white colors.

What are (2 of 4): Stop, Yield, Do Not Enter, and Wrong Way?

200

RTOR

What is Right Turn on Red?

200

This is the current president of the ITE Western District.

Who is Josh McNeill?

300

Information about warrant analysis in Canada can be found in this clue resource.

What is the Canadian Capacity Guide?

300

This term refers to the distance between successive vehicles crossing a detector, measured from the same point on each vehicle.

What is spacing?

300

This shape is used for all Regulatory, Warning, and Guide signs.

What is a rectangle?

300

TAZ

What is a Transportation Analysis Zone?

300

The first SLS was held in the Western District at this school.

What is CPSLO?

400

The Federal Highway Administration is responsible for maintaining these two clue resources.

What are Transportation Planning Process / Road Safety Fundamentals?

400

The measured average of all the individual vehicle speeds at a specific point is called this.

What is Time Mean Speed?

400

This color is reserved for signs displaying information about warnings.

What is yellow? (yellow-green accepted, but not green)

400

AREMA

What is the American Railway Engineering and Maintainence-of-Way Assoication?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Who are Kimberly Leung and Peter Koonce?

500

The Transportation Research Board created this clue resource to quantify vehicle capacity on a specific mode of vehicular transport.

What is the Highway Capacity Manual?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

What is occupancy?

500

School zone signs use these two colors.

What are "Fluorescent Yellow-Green” and black?

500

DDHV

What is Directional Design Hourly Volume?

500

These are the five states that make up the Western District.

What are CA, OR, WA, AK, HI?

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