Transportation Core
The maximum safe speed on a highway curve depends on this force acting toward the curve’s center.
What is centripetal force?
The MUTCD divides devices into three main categories: signs, signals and these.
What are pavement markings?
ITE
What is the Institute of Transportation Engineers?
Interstate route numbers that are odd generally run in this direction.
What is North/South?
This is the busiest airport in the world.
What is the Hartsfield -Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)?
This is the type of speed used when designing vertical and horizontal curves.
What is the Design Speed?
According to the MUTCD, all regulatory signs must have this background color.
What is white?
USDOT
What is the United States Department of Transportation?
To maintain safety, the MUTCD requires this feature to separate opposing directions of travel on rural interstates.
What is a median?
This highway passes through the most US states.
What is the I-95?
Unlike time mean speed, this measure weighs each vehicle by its travel time rather than its instantaneous speed.
What is Space Mean Speed?
The MUTCD is published and maintained by this U.S. federal agency.
What is the FHWA?
What is the average annual daily traffic?
This type of interchange allows vehicles to change direction between intersecting interstates without stopping.
What is a Cloverleaf interchange?
In Anaheim, this center provides rail, bus, taxi, and other services for daily commuters, visitors, and leisure travelers.
What is the ARTIC?
This measure, expressed in passenger-miles or ton-miles, reflects the total transport activity.
What is travel demand?
According to the MUTCD, pedestrian signal heads displaying the upraised hand symbol convey this meaning.
What is don’t walk/what is do not start to cross?
What is the environmental impact statement?
This is the official name of the system established by the 1956 Act.
What is the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways?
The world’s first modern paved road was built in this European country.
What is Scotland?
This scheduling concept coordinates different transit lines to minimize transfer times.
What is pulse scheduling?
This Part of the MUTCD specifically deals with traffic signals, including their design, placement, and operation.
What is Section 4?
HSIS
What is the highway safety information system?
This interstate holds the record for the longest continuous route in the U.S., stretching from Boston to Seattle.
What is the I-90?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the green book?