MUTCD
Safety
Transportation Publications
Interstate Highway System
Highway Capacity Manual
100

Type of sign that gives notice of traffic laws or regulations.

What is a regulatory sign?

100

Scale used to classify crash severity.

What is the KABCO scale?

100

More common name for the AASHTO publication "A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets."

What is the Green Book?

100

Odd number interstates run in these directions.

What is north/south?

100

The hour of the day in which the maximum volume occurs.

What is the peak hour?

200

Longitudinal lines can be one of these two colors.

What is white or yellow?

200

Factor used to compute the expected number of crashes after implementing a countermeasure.

What is a crash modification factor?

200

TRB published the 6th Edition of this maunal in 2016.

What is the Highway Capacity Manual?

200

US President that started the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower? 

200

A fully access-controlled divided highway with a minimum of two lanes in each direction.

What is a freeway?

300

A group of vehicles or pedestrians traveling together as a group, either voluntary or involuntary, because of traffic signal controls, geometrics, or other factors.

What is a platoon?

300

This factor, along with vehicle and roadway environments, is one of the three general contributing factors to crashes.

What is a human?

300

In the US, this manual, which standardized signs, celebrated its 80th birthday in 2015.

What is the Manual Uniform on Traffic Control Devices?

300

Longest US Interstate that runs from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.

What is I-90?

300

The unused part of a traffic signal cycle, including startup and clearance. 

What is lost time?

400

A flashing signal indication in this color has no meaning and shall not be used.

What is green?

400

Time it takes a driver to detect a target, process the information, decide on a response, and initiate a reaction.

What is perception reaction time?

400

AASHTO published the first edition of this manual in 2010.

What is the Highway Safety Manual? 

400
Name for an interstate with a three digit number.

What is an auxillary interstate, spur, or beltway?

400

Line of vehicles, bicycles, or persons waiting to be served due to traffic control, a bottleneck, or other causes.

What is a queue? 

500

Color designated in the MUTCD for incident management.

What is fluorescent pink? 

500
Home for a web database of Crash Modification Factors.

What is the CMF Clearinghouse?

500

Monthly publication written by ITE writeen for A Community of Transportation Professionals. 

What is the ITE Journal?

500

The westernmost interstate highway, which connects Canada and Mexico.

What is I-5? 

500

A transit stop where transit vehicles cross an intersection before stopping to serve passengers.

What is a far-side stop?