Transportation
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CAD/Bluebeam
Fun Facts
100

This is the interval distance of stations for both vertical and horizontal curves

What is 100+00 or 10-ft

100

This is the unit wight of concrete in lb/ft^3

What is 140-150 lb/ft^3

100

There are 3 callouts typically used to call out existing utilities on plans (DU sheets)

What are Remove, Relocate, and Abandon

100
When doing quantities in Bluebeam, these are the steps you should take to add a legend to each page

What is Select All Qtys > Right Click > Create Legend

100

This was the old carpet color in the Sacramento office

What is gray

200
This design feature allows traffic to flow counterclockwise and is designed to slow down vehicles, reduce conflict points and improve traffic flow

What is a roundabout

200

CYMK are the abbreviations of these colors used in graphic design

What is cyan, yellow, magenta, and black

200

This is the max running slope of a perpendicular curb ramp according to DIB-82

What is 1:12 (8.33%)

200

This is the plus/minus shortcut in CAD

What is %%P

200

These are 3 of the 4 core values

What are Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Flexibility

300

This design feature can be proposed on a road with high speeds and reckless driving to slow down traffic

What is road diet or pinch points

300

DBH is the standard abbreviation used when measuring trees

What is Diameter, Breast, Height

300

Per Caltrans HDM, this is the minimum vertical clearance over the travelled way of a conventional highway

What is 15 feet
300

This term is used to describe this assembly

What is a Conditional

300
This was the engineering service Mark Thomas initially provided

What is the Surveying

400

This design feature allows vehicles to enter high speed facilities by creating a controlled space for drivers to accelerate and merge at an appropriate speed

What is an on ramp

400

This dimension is the minimum construction clearance envelope height required by UPRR

What is 21'-6"

400

After the 60% plans have been completed, these should be sent out to utility owners so we can recieve this form that states who is responsible for the work (2 part answer)

What are Utility "B" letters and a Liability Claim Letter

400

This is the button you select in your Toolspace when setting up your data shortcuts folder to correctly map to your project

What is "Set Working Folder"

400

This is the number of offices (Bonus points if you can name all of them)

What is 12

(Sacramento, Roseville, Walnut Creek, San Jose, Fresno, Inland Empire, Irvine, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ontario, Long Beach, Colorado)

500

SSD, Appearance, Comfort and Drainage are typically the 4 design considerations when designing this feature

What is a sag curve

500

This is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage of trees and shrubs to develop geometric or fancy shapes, such as animal shapes or mazes

What is Topiary

500

This AASHTO code provision is primarily concerned with load and resistance factor design (LRFD) for bridge components

What is the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications

500

This is what you press to base copy in Bluebeam (NOT CAD)

What is CTRL+Shift+V

500

This person was the CEO before Rob Himes

Who is Mike Loehman