HCM 6th Edition Glossary - B's
MUTCD Colors
Mountain District Trivia
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Mountain District Interstates
100

A vehicle with two wheels tandem, propelled by human power, and usually ridden by one person.

What is a bicycle?

100

The sign color for warning uses.

What is yellow?

100

The year the Mountain District was formed.

What is 2020?

100

AADT

What is annual average daily traffic?

100

These are the three major Mountain District cities connected by I-80.

What are Reno, NV; Salt Lake City, UT; and Cheyenne, WY?

200

The practical minimum area for standing pedestrians.

What is body ellipse?

200

The sign color for stop or prohibition uses.

What is red?

200

The name of the Mountain District International Director's report to the District.

What is "The Yodel"?

200

TRB

What is Transportation Research Board?

200

This Interstate Highway travels through five Mountain District states.

What is I-15? (Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Montana)

300

A lane provided at a roundabout that allows a particular traffic movement to avoid using the circulatory roadway.

What is a bypass lane?

300

Black and white are assigned for this use.

What is regulation?

300

These seven sections form the Mountain District.

What are Arizona, Colorady/Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah?

300

CBD

What is central business district?

300

I-25 travels through these three Mountain District states.

What are New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming?
400

The distance between the outer edge of the paved roadway (or face of curb) and the near edge of the sidewalk.

What is buffer width?

400

This color is assigned to temporary traffic control uses.

What is orange?

400

The number of chartered ITE Student Chapters in the Mountain District.

What is 14?

400

AASHTO

What is American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials?

400

This is the longest Interstate in the US, and it travels through these three Mountain District states.

What is I-90 and the states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming?

500

The maximum backward extent of queued vehicles during a typical cycle, as measured from the stop line to the last queued vehicle?

What is back of queue?

500

Restricted lanes for electronic toll collection use this color.

What is purple?

500
The name of the Mountain District magazine.

What is "The Summit"?

500

FARS

What is fatality analysis reporting system?

500

One of the newest designated Interstate Highways, connecting Phoenix, Arizona with Las Vegas, Nevada.

What is I-11?