Traffic Engineering
Sign, Markings & Signals
Highway Capacity Manual
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100

The time required for one complete sequence of signal indications.



What is Cycle Length?

100

Red and Octagon sign

What is STOP sign?


100

A speed used to design the horizontal and vertical alignments of a highway.

What is Design speed?

100

ITS

What is Intelligent Transportation Systems?

100

October, 1930

When was the ITE formed?

200

The average of all vehicles passing a point over a duration of time

What is Time Mean Speed?

200

Color that follows green in a cycle

What is Amber?

200

The time during which an intersection is not used effectively by any movement.

What is Lost Time?

200

AWDT

What is Average Weekday Daily Traffic?

200

10

How many districts are there in ITE?

300

The process of estimating the number of vehicles or people that will use a specific transportation facility in the future.

What is Travel Demand Forecasting?

300

The yellow pavement marking line(s) that delineates the separation of traffic lanes that have opposite directions of travel on a roadway

What is Center Line Markings?

300

A road element in which demand exceeds capacity.

What is a Bottleneck?

300

TSP

What is Transit Signnal Priority?

300

Ernest P. Goodrich

Who was the first president of ITE?

400

The time a transit unit (vehicle or train) spends at a station or a stop, measured from stopping to starting.

What is Dwell Time?

400

Eight Hour Vehicular Volume

What is Warrant-1?

400

The hourly volume during the maximum-volume hour of the day divided by the peak 15-min flow rate within the peak hour. 

What is Peak Hour Factor (PHF)?

400

ATMS

What is Advanced Traffic Management Systems?

400

Minneapolis, MN

Where was the 2018 ITE Annual Meeting held?

500

The time, in seconds, for the front bumper of the second of two successive vehicles to reach the starting point of the front bumper of the first

What is Gap?

500

A sign that shows route designations, destinations, directions, distances, services, points of interest, or other geographical, recreational, or cultural information

What is Guide Sign?

500

A highway lane or set of lanes, or a highway facility, for which variable operational strategies such as direction of travel, tolling, pricing, and/or vehicle type or occupancy requirements are implemented and managed in real-time in response to changing conditions.

What is a Mananaged Lane?

500

PTOE

What is Professional Traffic Operations Engineer?

500

16 members

How many members create the ITE International Board of Direction?