Quiz 1 Flashcards
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
came from the Greek word “nomos” which means “to pasture” –
Nomads
Groups that migrate in an established pattern to find pasture lands for themselves and for their domestic livestock.
Nomads
Nomads is Also known as
Pastoralist
Three types of Nomads
Foraging populations
Pastoral nomads
Tinkers or Gypsies -
a historical frame structure that was used by indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America, to drag loads over land.
Travois
MANPOWER:
Carrying pole
Back load and tumpline
Sledge on rollers/runners
Travois
. It was used for military operation. It was used to message for a rescue mission. It was invented by Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban.
Ancient Chinese kite
was based from the flight of birds. It was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. Ornithopter is derived from the Greek term “Ornithos” which means “Bird” and “Pteron” which means “Wings”. It never flew. Imitate how the bird fly.
. Da Vinci’s Ornithopter
was invented by Montgolfier brothers of France (Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier). They wanted to test it using a prisoner but instead of prisoner ang sinakay nila ay Sheep, Duck and Rooster.
Montgolfier balloon
first person who ride the Montgolfier Balloon and stayed 4 minutes there.
Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier
he advocated the feeder road building and perfected the Macadamized road in England about 1815
John L. Macadam
It is considered as the ancestor of bicycle.
Dandy horse”
in 1838, he made the first bicycle with pedals.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Frenchman, who made possible the introduction of motorized carriages by his invention of the “INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE” in the 1860’s
Etienne Lenoir
developed an internal combustion engine which uses liquid fuel known as “DIESEL FUEL”
Rudolf Diesel
built the first automobile powered by ICE (INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE), 1885. (Mercedes-Benz) (sa vid discussion)
Karl Benz
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. The word traffic 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
THE FIVE PILLARS OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Traffic Engineering
Traffic Education
Traffic Enforcement
Traffic Ecology/Environment
Traffic Economy
It is the science of measuring traffic and travel and the study of the basic laws relative to the traffic flow and generation, and application of this knowledge to the professional practice of planning, and the operating traffic systems to achieve safe and efficient movement of persons and goods.
Traffic Engineering
focuses in the construction of infrastructure in relation to traffic/traffic management.
The main objective of this is to provide safe, rapid comfortable, efficient, convinient and environmentally compatible movement of people, goods and services.
Traffic Engineering
