MUTCD
Abbreviations
Roadway Design
(very) miscellaneous
Trains in California
100

These are the two background colors present in freeway exit signs besides black/white.

What are yellow and green?

100

FHWA

What is the Federal Highway Administration?
100

This is the amount of feet that are in a station.

What is 100?

100

This is the name of the person that was caught cheating on his wife with some lady from his work on a kiss-cam at a Coldplay concert.

Who is Andy Byron?

100

This San Francisco Bay Area transit system connects cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley.

What is the Bay Area Rapid Transit system?

200

The most recent version of the MUTCD, the 11th edition, was released in this year.

What is 2023?

200

TRB

What is the Transportation Research Board?
200

This point is at the midpoint between the PVC and the PVT on a vertical curve, and is usually not on the curve itself.


What is the PVI?

200

These are the two most common lengths for shipping containers in the US, in feet.

What are 40 and 53?

200

This railroad company built the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, starting in Sacramento.

What is the Central Pacific Railroad?

300

This is the first warrant in warrant analysis, a series of tests to determine the necessity of a signal at an intersection.

What is Eight-Hour Vehicular Volume?

300

DSD

What is Decision Sight Distance?

300

This is the standard percent grade of a normal crown for a horizontal alignment.


What is 2%?

300

These are the four states that border Kansas.

What are Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Missouri?

300

Covering over 547 miles and serving six Southern California counties, this is the largest commuter rail system in the state by track length.

What is Metrolink?

400

This is the color is reserved for electronic toll collection signs, like Fas-Trak or EZ Pass.

What is purple?

400

AADT

What is annual average daily traffic?

400

This is the max allowed superelevation for a horizontal curve, according to Caltrans standards.

What is 12%?

400

DAILY DOUBLE


What are Older drivers, Novice drivers, Truck drivers, Motorcyclists, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists?

400

This California train station has appeared in movies like Blade Runner, Catch Me If You Can, and The Dark Knight Rises.

What is Los Angeles Union Station?

500

This type of circular intersection, typically found in neighborhoods, does not utilize traffic lights, instead using signs to direct traffic counter-clockwise around a central island.


What is a traffic circle?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

What is the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration?

500

This is the table number that corresponds to the Caltrans standard for minimum curve radii based on superelevation and design speed.

What is 202.2E?

500

Before Google Maps existed, people often used these paper atlas books to navigate places. These specific maps/atlases were particularly popular in Southern California, though they were used in other places in the Western US as well.

What are Thomas Guides?

500

This Central Valley city is the current focus of high-speed rail construction and will house the project's first operational segment.

 What is Bakersfield? (Merced is an acceptable answer).

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