Highway Safety Concepts
Road users include passenger vehicle drivers and occupants, drivers of large vehicles, and these three other vulnerable groups?
What are pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists?
(From Final Round. No one answered)
The most often violated regulatory sign
What is a speed limit sign?
(From Semi-Final 2. Manitoba: Wrong, OSU: Correct)
The Eagles sang about Winslow, a town on this road that is not mentioned in an often-recorded song
What is Route 66?
(From Semi-Final 2. No one answered)
This mode of travel helped to identify the need for good roads before 1900
What is bicycling?
(From Semi-Final 1. PSU: Wrong, NYU: Did not answer, UF: Did not answer, TAMU: Did not answer)
This travel mode constitutes less than 1% of vehicle miles of travel but about 15% of all fatalities
What are motorcycles?
(From Final Round. Clemson: Wrong, BYU: Wrong, NYU: Did not answer)
To be the Transportation Organization of Choice
What is the ITE Vision Statement?
(From Semi-Final 2. Clemson: Correct)
R7-203 prohibits parking when this is on the road
What is snow?
(From Semi-Final 2. Manitoba: Correct)
Queen sang about this speed competition
What is Bicycle Race?
(From Semi-Final 2. Clemson: Correct)
This president, who is celebrated by a dam named in his honor, convened the first convened the First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in 1924
Who is (Herbert) Hoover?
(From Semi-Final 1. NYU: Correct)
71% of persons killed in crashes involving trucks were located here
What are in Other Vehicles, not a Truck?
(From Final Round. NYU: Wrong, BYU: Wrong, Clemson: Did not answer)
This document indicates that ITE members will have due regard for the safety, health, and welfare of the public (and more)
What is the Canon of Ethics?
(From Semi-Final 2. OSU: Correct)
Where practical, these are preferred in Canada over word signs
What are symbol(s) (signs)?
(From Semi-Final 2. Manitoba: Correct)
The Fray sang about this mode of transportation going "over my head" in this 2005 song
What is a cable car?
(I made this one up)
President Truman made little progress with federal safety initiatives due to this Constitutional concept
What is states' rights? (or states' prerogatives)
(From Semi-Final 1. No one answered)
It is the travel mode with the fastest growing rate of annual fatalities in the U.S.
What is pedestrians?
(From Final Round. NYU: Correct)
A published statement adopted through established procedures setting forth a formal ITE position
What is an ITE Policy?
(From Semi-Final 2. OSU: Wrong, Clemson: Did not answer, Manitoba: Did not answer)
The ITE district that we are located in today
What is Mountain?
(From Semi-Final 2. You should be able to get this)
Rascal Flatts and Tom Cochrane sang that life equals this type of facility
What is a highway?
(From Semi-Final 2. Clemson: Correct)
This agency was transformed into the Federal Highway Administration in 1966
What is the Bureau of Public Roads?
(From Semi-Final 1. UF: Correct)
A worm disease named after this country is highlighted in the Roadway Safety Fundamentals text
What is Guinea?
(From Final Round. Clemson: Correct)
The three Honorary ITE Members installed in the past year (August 2021-August 2022)
Who are Zaki Mustafa, Jenny Grote, and Robert Wunderlich?
(From Semi-Final 2. No one answered)
For this class of diamond interchange, ramps are quite separated, perhaps using butter
What is a spread diamond?
(From Semi-Final 2. Manitoba: Correct)
Twenty One Pilots complained that their taxes were not being used for cement to fill these
What are (pot)holes?
(From Semi-Final 2. OSU: Correct)
The Highway Safety Act of 1973 adopted this ratio methodology for federal funding of safety improvements
What is benefit/cost ratio?
(From Semi-Final 1. PSU: Correct)