Transportation Trivia
This federal agency is responsible for regulating air traffic in the United States.
What is the FAA?
In traffic control devices, this sign color represents warnings.
Person driving or riding a vehicle
What is Occupant?
What is Median?
ITE
What is Institute of Transportation Engineers?
This U.S. state has the highest total mileage of public roads.
What is Texas?
This sign color provides direction guidance and indicates permitted movements.
What is green?
This term describes the number of vehicles passing a point per unit time.
What is flow rate?
This type of highway has full control of access and no at-grade intersections.
What is a freeway?
AWDT
What is Average Weekday Daily Traffic?
This term refers to the area immediately beyond where two roadways diverge.
What is a gore?
This sign shape is used to indicate a railroad crossing.
What is a circle?
This term describes how good or bad traffic conditions are on a roadway.
What is level of service?
This type of road is used for long, uninterrupted travel and has the highest speeds.
What are interstates (or freeways)?
HOV
What is a High-Occupancy Vehicle?
This interstate highway connects Los Angeles to Phoenix.
What is I-10?
This sign color is used to indicate recreational and cultural points of interest.
What is brown?
This term refers to the downtown or central business area of a city.
What is the Central Business District?
This is a divided highway with partial control of access.
What is an expressway?
ATMS
What is Advanced Traffic Management Systems?
According to current standards, these two sign colors are not assigned a specific meaning.
What are coral and light blue?
This sign color is used to designate lanes used for electronic toll collection.
What is purple?
This term describes a system that allows drivers to pay tolls electronically without stopping.
What is electronic toll collection (ETC)?
This is the interconnecting roadway between two or more highways that do not meet at grade.
What is an interchange?
PTOE
What is Professional Traffic Operations Engineer?