Fundamentals of Traffic Management Flashcards
It is an executive functions such as planning, organizing, directing and supervising, coordinating operating recording and budgeting traffic affairs.
Traffic Management
Refers to the movement of person, goods or vehicle, either thru foot, powered by combustion system or thru animal drawn from one place to another for the purpose of travel.
Traffic
It was derived from the word “trafficare” which means “to carry on trade”
Traffic
Skillful use of means to accomplish a purpose.
Management
Entire width between boundary lines of every way or place of which any part is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic as a matter of right or custom.
Traffic way
Part of traffic way over which motor vehicle pass.
Roadway
Either side of the roadway.
Shoulder
It is the science of measuring traffic and travel and the study of basic laws relative to the traffic flow and generation.
Traffic Engineering
A sign usually made of a metal plate in a conspicuous location beside a road.
Traffic road sign
Danger warning sign also known as?
Caution signs
These signs are intended to give caution for approaching road hazards.
Danger warning sign
These signs have equilateral triangular shape with one side horizontal and having red borders, black markings and white background.
Danger warning sign
These are intended to give the road users of special obligation, restrictions or prohibition with which they must comply.
Regulatory Signs
These signs are ROUND and some are INVERTED TRIANGLE, it have red border, white background, black markings.
Regulatory signs
These are signs intended to regulate priority over a particular road selection or roadway intersection.
Priority signs
These signs can be used on specified section of the road which will be easily see by motorist to indicate regulation which is prohibitive or restrictive in nature.
Prohibitory signs
These signs are intended to guide road users of special rules in which they must comply for the safety.
Mandatory signs
Informative signs also known as?
Guide signs or Direction signs
These signs are modified signs that actually give directional instructions for the driver to take.
Informative signs
Are rectangular in shape with white markings and blue background.
Informative signs
These are lines, patterns, words, colors set into surface to the roadway, officially placed for the purpose of regulating, warning, or traffic control.
Pavements markings
It show the frontier between two province, municipalities of countries or for the purpose of showing the beginning and end of built up areas.
Place Identification Signs
It is used to separate traffic when located in a two-way multiple lane road.
Solid white line in the center
This divides any road into a right and left hand side so cars won’t go in the same direction on the same lane.
Solid white line in the center
Overtaking on this line is allowed because it is broken.
Broken white center line
If this seen on the road that will allow overtaking n the side of a broken line.
Mixed center line with broken white or yellow line
Refers to any power operated traffic control device which traffic is warned or directed to take some specific actions.
Traffc lights
Used to control traffic at junctions and also to stop traffic to provide safe crossing points for pedestrians and cyclist.
Traffic lights
Developed the first world electric traffic lights in 1912 in Salt lake city, Utah USA.
Lester wire
These are the elevated areas located at some part of the roadway.
Traffic Island
These are areas within the roadway constructed in a manner to establish physical channels through which vehicular traffic is guided.
Traffic island
These are constructed primarily to divide the streams of the motor vehicles.
Division Island
These are constructed to channelize or direct the flow of traffic.
Channelizing Island
Creates a circular flow in one direction which is found in intersection that has a circular central island.
Rotary Island
These are constructed between the pedestrian sidewalk and the road pavement to prevent motor vehicles from using the sidewalk for parking and passing purposes.
Pedestrian Island
Means the right to proceed ahead of another vehicle or pedestrian.
Right of way
The process of giving training and travel and practice in the actual application of traffic safety knowledge.
Traffic Education
Places the student into real life of driving situations from the beginning.
Comprehensive
Type of instruction depends on instructor student communication.
Traditional Instruction
Student driver accompanied by an instructor while giving his comment.
Commentary driving method
Static machine with all the important features of a car used in driving method/training.
Simulator
Are mass publicity aimed to make road users behave more safely.
Safety Campaigns
Is a theory which asserts that a man exhibits constant variation of life, energy and mood states.
Biorhythm
It deals mostly on the implementation and enforcement of traffic laws and rules and regulations.
Traffic Enforcement
A person who is duly deputized by an agency of govt. authorized by law to enforce traffic laws, rules and regulations.
Traffic Law Enforcer
The basis of all traffic enforcement.
Traffic laws
Wholly police responsibility and entail looking for defects in the behavior of motorists, pedestrians, vehicles equipment and roadway condition.
Detection
Wholly a police responsibility where the police is required to take action at once to prevent continued and future violation.
Apprehension
While this is a court function, the police also provides corresponding influence through preparation and introduction of evidence or close contact with the prosecution officer.
Prosecution
The police provides influence on this step by acting as a witness to the prosecution or supplying additional evidence.
Adjudication
This step determines the guild or innocence of the accused.
Adjudication
Consists of legislation, police and the courts.
Enforcement system
Includes pedestrians, pedal cyclists, drivers, passengers and other.
Road user system
Consists of the entire road and vehicle complex.
The traffic system
Is an enforcement action which consists of taking a person into custody for the purpose of holding or detaining him to answer a charge of law violation before a court.
Traffic Arrest
A means of having violators appear in court without physical arrest.
Traffic Citation
An enforcement action which does not contemplate possible assessment of penalty by the court or otherwise as a result of warning alone.
Traffic Warning
Telling the violator that he has violated the law and explain the hazards of such actions.
Verbal Warning
Are usually used when you have observed a minor violation, the traffic enforcer only uses a gesture of his hand and/or of the head to give the warning.
Visual Warning
Combination of verbal warning and citations.
Written Warning
It is the study of dealing with potentially disastrous population explosion, changes in urban environment due to the scale and density of a new urban concentration.
Traffic ecology/environment
It deals with the benefits and adverse effects of traffic to our economy.
Traffic economy
Lacks of roads, bridges, traffic facilities, rail road, etc.
Physical Inadequacy
Ineffective mechanical control devices, inefficient traffic enforcers, poor implementation of traffic laws, rules and regulations.
Poor control measure
Slow drivers or poor driving habits, pedestrian mistakes, officer’s error etc.
Human Errors
Unrepaired digging, unfinished road pavement because of inappropriate budget.
Poor maintenance
Part of police traffic supervision which consist of driving and walking here and therein an area or to and from on a road for the purpose of traffic law enforcement and to provide traffic connected service to the public.
Traffic Patrol
Is a moving patrol or stationary observation on a specified road between two points usually on one city street or a section of a highway.
Line patrol
Is a moving patrol or stationary observation in an area or beat which includes a number of streets, roads or a sections on a highway.
Area Patrol
It is a traffic observation at a selected place.
Stationary Traffic Observation
Observer remains in full view of traffic conditions.
Conspicuous Traffic observation
It is a stationary in which the observer is in full view but located.
Visible Traffic Observation
It is a stationary observation in which the observer is not visible to the public.
Conceal traffic observation
