Definitions
Transportation Bibles
USDOT
Transport Vehicles
Alphabet Soup
100
The safe and efficient movement of people and goods in an environmentally responsible manner.
What is transportation?
100
The text for this course.
What is Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, Fifth Edition?
100
Ray LaHood
Who is the Secretary of Transportation?
100
This "vehicle" moves at about 4 feet per second (2.73 MPH).
What is a pedestrian?
100
FHWA
What is the Federal Highway Administration?
200
A means to provide access to people, places, goods, and services; an element of social change.
What is transportation?
200
The more common name for AASHTO's A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets?
What is "The Green Book?"
200
April 1, 1967
What was the USDOT's first official day of operation?
200
They account for about 2 percent of US traffic fatalities.
What are bicycles?
200
FTA
What is the Federal Transit Administration
300
Highways and Streets; Air; Fixed Guideway Systems; Waterborne; and Pipelines.
What are Transportation Modes?
300
This newly released transportation bible was issues in four volumes.
What is "The Highway Capacity Manual?"
300
It has the ____ largest budget of all of the cabinet departments. Health and Human Services is first.
What is 7th?
300
This characteristic is a prime determinant of how quickly a vehicle can accelerate.
What is weight to horsepower ratio?
300
FMCSA
What is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration?
400
CE 421W and CE 423
What classes is CE 321 a prerequisite for?
400
The only manual in this category that is an ANSI standard?
What is "The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices?"
400
Norman Y. Mineta
Who was the longest serving Secretary of Transportation?
400
It only has axles on one end.
What is a semi-trailer.
400
RITA
What is the Research and Innovative Technology Administration?
500
Promote transportation policies and investments that bring lasting and equitable economic benefits to the Nation and its citizens.
What is the USDOT Strategic Goal of Economic Competitiveness?
500
Webster's 1958 seminal work on vehicle delay.
What is "Traffic Signal Settings?"
500
Alan S. Boyd
Who was the first Secretary of Transportation?
500
It looks like an accordion.
What is an articulated bus?
500
PHMSA
What is the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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