Cars in Pop Culture
This cartoon features "boatmobiles" and a character who can't get his driver's licsense.
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
Rate of motion expressed as distance per unit of time.
What is speed?
The city in which the ITE headquarters office is located.
What is Washington, DC?
Process of grouping streets and highways into classes, based on their character of service.
What is functional classification?
The number of feet in one station.
What is 100 feet?
This 1960s cartoon features cars powered by feet.
What is the Flintstones?
Being used by more than one travel mode.
What is multimodal?
What are the 1930s?
A strategy to decrease the number of conflict points on arterial streets, therefore increasing both capacity and safety.
What is access management?
The AASHTO standard perception-reaction time used to calculate stopping sight distance.
What is 2.5 seconds?
Back to the Future Car Brand.
What is a DeLorean?
A quantatative performance measure that measures quality of service on an A to F scale.
What is level of service?
City in which ITE was founded.
What is Pittsburgh, PA?
Transportation policy-making body of local government and transportation agencies requires by FHWA for urban areas.
What is a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)?
The AASHTO standard driver eye height for passenger cars.
What is 3.5 feet?
Famous animated Disney car voiced by Owen Wilson.
Who is Lightning McQueen?
Process by which a minor-street vehicle accepts an available gap to maneuver.
What is gap acceptance?
ITE program to identify, develop, and engage leaders to ensure ITE and its members are positioned to engage and shape the future of transportation.
What is Leadership ITE?
This act, originally passed in 1963, is a US Federal Law designed to control air pollution.
What is the Clean Air Act?
Typical pedestrian walking speed as recommended by the MUTCD.
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" car brand.
What is a Ferrari?
Period of time in which all traffic signal indicators remain contant.
What is an interval?
One of the three certifications from the Transportation Professional Certification Board.
What is Professional Operations Traffic Engineer (PTOE), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP), or Road Safety Professional (RSP1, RSP2)?
The ability to connect, and the connections between, modes of transportation.
What is intermodal?
Multiply a speed by this number to convert miles per hour to feet per second.
What is 1.47?