Guidebooks
Abbreviations
ITE International Officers and Their Districts
Traffic Analysis Terms
Safety Stuff
100

This guidebook ensures regularity of signage and pavement markings across state borders

What is MUTCD?

100

ADA

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

100

This is the officer from the Missouri Valley District.

Who is John Davis (Des Moines, IA)? 

100

The qualitative measure used to relate the quality of motor vehicle traffic service using letters

What is Level of Service (LOS)?

100

(DAILY DOUBLE) This safety initiative seeks to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries

What is Vision Zero?

200

This manual's methodologies focus on traffic flow theory and roadway throughput

What is HCM? 

200

PHF

What is Peak-Hour Factor?

200

This is the officer from the Mountain District

Who is Karen Aspelin (Colorado Springs, CO)?

200

The ratio of total hourly volume to the 15-minute peak-flow rate within the same hour

What is Peak Hour Factor?

200

These in-vehicle safety devices help occupants from being thrown out of the vehicle during a crash

What are seat belts?

300

This manual forecasts vehicular demand based on land use

What is ITE Trip Generation Manual?

300

RRFB

What is Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon

300

This is the officer from the North Eastern District

Who is Gordon Meth (Cedar Knolls, NJ)?

300

The time elapsed between the endings of two sequential terminations of a given interval for a traffic signal.

What is cycle length?

300

These are considered better indicators of risk than crash frequencies alone

What are crash rates?

400

The color of the AASHTO policy on geometric design of highways and streets

What is Green?

400

HOT

What is High Occupancy Toll?

400

(DAILY DOUBLE) This is the officer from the Mid-Colonial District.

Who is Steve Kuciemba (Baltimore, MY)?

400
A technique for exploring how model outputs change in response to changes in model inputs, one input at a time

What is Sensitivity Analysis?

400

In a work zone, these could be "shifting or merging"

What are tapers?

500

This is the Dutch manual on bicycle design

What is Crow Design Manual?

500

AASHTO

What is American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials?

500

The district that has never had an International President

What is the Global/International District

500

Strategies employed by a project to offset impacts either during construction or a final condition

What is Mitigation?

500

This is an equation to predict average number of crashes per year at a location as a function of exposure and roadway characteristics

What is Safety Performance Function (SPF)?