Travel Demand Management
The process of helping people change their travel behavior to meet their travel needs travelling at different times, making fewer or shorter trips, or taking different routes.”
What is Travel Demand Management or TDM
Warrant 1
What is Eight-Hour Vehicular Volume
The time required for one complete sequence of all signal indications
What is Cycle Length
The largest vehicle that will use a highway or street with some regularity. Out in the bush, this is most appropriately a semi-tractor trailer
What is a design vehicle?
ITS
What are Intelligent Transportation Systems?
This event in the 1970's in combination with air quality legislation encouraged a more efficient use of the transportation network including finding alternatives to find additional means of travel.
What are the oil-embargos?
Warrant 4
What is pedestrian volume?
This diagram used to show phase sequencing could also be used to describe BYU students struggling to get engaged.
What is a ring-barrier diagram?
This forgiving roadside concept allows for errant vehicles leaving the roadway for whatever reason and supports a roadside designed to minimize the serious consequences of roadway departures
What is a clear zone?
LRTP
What is a Long Range Transportation Plane
To decrease congestion in urban centers, planners encouraged flexible work hours, ride sharing, parking management and _____________ for transit services
What are subsidies?
Warrant 9
What is an intersection near a Grade-Crossing
This term means to provide for recurring demand so that a phase is serviced even if no real demand exists on the phase. For example, a pedestrian walk indication activates without the pushing of a button
What is recall?
Turn, curve, reverse turn, reverse curve, and winding road signs are used in locations where it is desirable to warn drivers of changes in the _________________ of the roadway.
What is Horizontal Alignment?
TSM&O
What is Transportation Systems Management and Operations?
Another congestion management strategy is to encourage employers to allow a _________, which creates variation in the time when commuters use the transportation network
What is a flexible work week?
Warrant 7
What is Crash Experience?
L___ and L__ describe the two variations of left-turn phasing
What are Lead and Lag?
This type of Rural T-intersection is named for a popular wind instrument. The left turn movements using the same bridge.
What is a trumpet intersection?
MAP-21
What is Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st century Act?
A main concern for transit users is needing an immediate ride home in case of an emergency(such as a sick child). This program, known as a GRH, can help.
What is a Guaranteed Ride Home
Warrant 3
What is Peak Hour?
An additional phase dedicated to the exclusive use of pedestrians.
What is an exclusive pedestrian phase, pedestrian scramble or Barnes Dance
When mounted in a moving vehicle, this device displays a reading that is indicative of the combined effect of superelevation, lateral (centripetal) acceleration, and vehicle body roll.
What is a Ball-bank indicator?
PUD