Roads & Things on the Roads
Acronyms
Traffic Signs
Grab Bag 3
Traffic Engineering Studies
100
A circular intersection with yield control at entry
What is a roundabout?
100
FHWA stands for this.
What is the Federal Highway Administration?
100
Your car will be towed if you park in front of this sign.
What is a No Parking sign?
100
What car does Ferris Bueller “borrow” from his pal Cameron’s father in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”?
What is a Ferrari
100
The speed above which 15% of vehicles travel.
What is the 85th-percentile speed?
200
A portion of a roadway that has been designated for preferential or exclusive use by bicyclists by pavement markings and, if used, signs.
What is a Bicycle Lane?
200
VMT stands for this.
What is Vehicle Miles Traveled?
200
A stop sign has this many sides.
What is eight (8)?
200
What was the key reason the national maximum speed limit was set to 55 mph in 1974?
To keep down gas prices.
200
The 10 mph range of speed that has the greatest number of observations.
What is the pace?
300
A street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban areas and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic.
What is an Alley?
300
HCM stands for this.
What is the Highway Capacity Manual?
300
A yellow sign with a black plus sign means this.
What is an Intersection Ahead?
300
In North America, road signs facing this direction usually wear out first.
South - Because of the effects of the sun
300
The rate of use of a parking space.
What is a parking turnover rate?
400
A low to moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads.
What is a Collector Road?
400
AASHTO stands for this.
What is the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials?
400
This circular sign has an X with two Rs on it.
What is a Railroad Crossing Sign?
400
The first stop sign in the U.S. was put up in what city?
Detroit - In 1915
400
These traffic volume terms are better known as AADT and ADT.
What are Average Annual Daily Traffic and Average Daily Traffic?
500
A non-limited access road running parallel to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access.
What is a Frontage Road?
500
MUTCD stands for this.
What is Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices?
500
Minimum fine for a carpool violation in California, within $100.
What is $341?
500
The standard width between railroad tracks is?
4 ft 8.5 inches - Standard lives on from Roman times
500
A cordon count.
What is count data that includes every intersection defined by an imaginary loop?