Basic Stuff
Acronyms
Planning
Random
ITE
100
The number of vehicles crossing a detector during a given time period.
What is Flow?
100
ITS
What is Intelligent Transportation Systems?
100
The process of estimating the number of vehicles or people that will use a specific transportation facility in the future.
What is Transportation Forecasting?
100
The freeway that was closed during “Carmegeddon”.
What is what is the I-405?
100
The # of Districts of ITE.
What is 10?
200
The number of vehicles divided by length of road.
What is Density?
200
VMT
What is Vehicles Miles traveled?
200
Allocates trips between an origin and destination by a particular mode to a route.
What is Traffic Assignment?
200
The manual used to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets.
What is the MUTCD?
200
Current International President.
Who is Rock E. Miller?
300
The visibility distance required for drivers to execute safe passing maneuvers in the opposing traffic lane of a two-lane, two-way highway.
What is Passing Sight Distance?
300
PeMs
What is Performance Measurement System?
300
One of the steps in the 4-step model. (Trip Distribution,
What is Trip Distribution, Mode Choice, Route Choice, or Trip Generation?
300
The four types of resistance that a vehicle must overcome (provide all four).
What are air, rolling, grade, and curve?
300
The two biggest ITE publications (provide both).
What are Trip Generation and Parking Generation?
400
The average speed of vehicles occupying a given section of a highway or lane over some specified time period.
What is Space Mean Speed?
400
AWDT
What is Average Weekday Daily Traffic?
400
Matches trip makers’ origins and destinations.
What is Trip Distribution?
400
The first national roadway.
What is The National Pike/Cumberland Road?
400
Western District President.
Who is Alyssa Reynolds?
500
The average speed of vehicles passing a point on a highway or lane over some specified time period.
What is Time Mean Speed?
500
NCSHS
What is National Conference on Street and Highway Safety?
500
Determines the frequency of origins or destinations of trips in each zone by trip purpose.
What is Transportation Generation?
500
The name of a linear speed-density relationship.
What is Greenshields?
500
Southern California President.
Who is Steven Itagaki?