This is what the MUTCD stands for.
What is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices?
The first transportation course at UCI, CEE 121, covers five main topics. These are two of them.
What are (pick two from five), Vertical/Horizontal Alignments, Superelevation, Pavement Design, or Traffic Flow?
An MPO is made up of representatives from local government and transportation agencies with authority. This is what MPO stands for.
Metropolitan Planning Organization
This metric is used to determine the vehicular capacity of an intersection, and ranges from A to F.
What is Level of Service?
This is the school hosting the 2025 ITE SoCal Traffic Bowl.
What is Cal Poly Pomona?
This color is reserved for temporary traffic control operations, such as when there is construction work.
What is Orange?
This software is very similar to AutoCAD, but you can create road alignments and surfaces and vertical profiles of a road using this software. It is used in CEE 121 for the design project.
What is Civil3D?
The Transportation Planning Handbook defines “activity centers” as areas with a large concentration of development. A retail center is one example of an activity center. Name one other example.
What are (name one) CBD, Office/office park, Mixed-use center, university, medical center, recreational facility, or dining/entertainment?
These are three of the nine warrants used in traffic intersection analysis.
What are (pick 3 of 9), 8h, 4h, 1h, Peds, School, Network, Crash Exp, Coordinated Signal, or Railroad Crossing?
This LA Metro Line connects Pomona to downtown Long Beach.
What is the A Line?
This is what AASHTO stands for.
What is the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials?
This point lies between the beginning and endpoints of a vertical curve, but is usually not on the curve itself.
What is a PVI (Point of Vertical Intersection)?
According to the Transportation Planning Handbook, “long-term” parking is described as parking for at least this many hours.
What is 3?
This type of left turn is made in the presence of conflicting traffic.
What is a Permitted Left Turn?
These are the six SoCal schools competing in ITE SoCal Traffic Bowl.
What are CPP, USC, UCLA, UCI, CSULB, CSUF?
This is the current edition number of the MUTCD, released in 2023.
What is 11?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is 2.5 seconds?
This type of congestion pricing charges vehicle users whenever they enter into a defined area.
What is cordon (congestion pricing)?
This is another way of describing the “clearance interval”.
What is an all-red interval?
This is what the NCHRP stands for.
What is the National Cooperative Highway Research Program?
These type of signalized intersections rely entirely on loop detectors in all approaches to determine red and green light intervals.
What are Actuated Signals?
These are the three main sources of vehicle resistance.
What are aerodynamic, rolling, and grade resistance?
If you get hit by a car travelling at 40 mph an hour, this is the percentage chance you have of surviving.
What is 20%?
This term describes one complete sequence of signal indication, or when all approaches to an intersection get a period of green light before it repeats.
What is a cycle?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is an autorack?