Over the MUTCD rainbow
Acronyms (LOL)
On the BrITE Side
Park it like it's hot
It's Just a Phase, Mom
100

The background color to a STOP sign.

What is red?

100

LOS

What is level of service?

100

The 2026 Southern District Annual Meeting will be held in this city.

What is Biloxi MS?

100

The number of vehicles that can be parked in a given facility.

What is Parking Capacity?

100

The largest allowable diameter for a vehicular signal indication

What is 12 inches?

200

The color that separates traffic flowing in opposite directions.

What is yellow?

200

ADA

What is "Americans with Disabilities Act"?

200

The name for the only ITE district outside of North America

What is the Global District?

200

The length of time a vehicle is parked.

What is Duration?

200

This component of phase duration accounts for the amount of time it takes drivers to initially react to a green light.

What is Startup Lost Time?

300

These are the colors of a school sign legend and background, respectively.

What are black and fluorescent yellow-green?

300

SPF

What is "Safety Performance Function"

300

The immediate past president of ITE international.

Who is John Davis?

300

The most inexpensive type of parking lot to construct.

What is Surface Parking?

300

Two possible options for the order in which the left turn phase is presented relative to conflicting through movement

What are Leading and Lagging?

400

The sign designated RS-083 indicates good locations for rock collecting and has this color background.

What is brown?

400

AWDT

What is "Average Weekday Daily Traffic"?

400

The current Secretary/Treasurer of the Southern District.

Who is Jeff Stephenson?

400

Circulation area for motor vehicles within a parking facility, typically between rows of parking.

What is an Aisle?

400

The level of service that describes operations with control delay between 55 and 80 seconds per vehicle and a volume to capacity ratio greater than 1.0 at a signalized intersection.

What is E?

500

The sign color used in association with incident management.

What is fluorescent pink?

500

NACTO

What is "National Association of City Transportation Officials"?

500

The first annual meeting of ITE’s Southern Section, which would later become the Southern District, was hosted in this city in 1953.

What is Atlanta?

500

The ITE manual used to determine the parking requirements of a development

What is Parking Generation Manual?

500

The name of traffic signal warrant number seven (7).

What is Crash Experience?

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