Transportation Flashcards
Signs that inform road users of traffic laws
and regulations which, if disregarded, will constitute an offense.
Regulatory Signs
device mounted on a fixed support (permanent signs) or portable support (temporary signs) whereby a specific
message is conveyed by means of words or symbols placed or erected for the purpose
of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
Traffic Signs
Signs that instruct road users to meet
certain traffic rule requirements or road condition
Special Instruction Signs
Warn road users of condition on or adjacent to the road that may be unexpected or hazardous
Warning Signs
Inform and advice road users
of directions, distance, routes, the location of services, and points of interests
Guide Signs (Informative Signs)
Warn or advise of temporary hazardous
conditions that could endanger road users or the men and equipment engaged on roadwork
Roadwork Signs
Signs which provide means of displaying
essential traffic information on wide multi-lane roads, where some degree of lane use control is required, or where side-of-road clearance is insufficient to accommodate a road side sign
Overhead Signs
Highway appurtenances designed to prevent vehicular penetration from the travel way to areas behind the barrier such as to minimize damage to impacting vehicles and their occupants, and to reduce the risk of injuries to pedestrians and workers
Barriers
Warning devices used to supplement other
controls and devices necessary to alert motorists of construction and maintenance activities or obstructions in the roadway.
Flashing Lamps
Light retro-reflecting devices mounted at the side of the roadway, in series, to indicate the roadway alignment.
Delineators
Devices which may be conical in shape or tubular shaped capable of performing channelization of traffic which may
be set on the surface of the roadway or rigidly attached for continued use.
Traffic Cones
Roadwork devices consisting of pre-cast
concrete sections, sandbag, and others which, may be used to guide traffic at the construction site.
Temporary Curbing
Device used in place of rigid barrier
posts or traffic cones with a minimum of 450 mm by 50 mm wide with alternate bands of contrasting color as seen by approaching
traffic for delineation of traffic.
Flexible Post or Bollard
Used as a background for STOP signs, as border color on GIVE WAY signs, warning signs and prohibitive signs in the regulatory type.
Red
Used as legend color for signs having white, yellow, orange, fluorescent orange, fluorescent yellow green background and as chevron for hazard makers.
Black
Used as background color for road signs.
Yellow
Background color for most signs and legends for some colored background
White
Background color for signs
related to pedestrian movement, school zones, and road work hazard markers to give additional emphasis and guidance to vehicle operators
Flourescent Yellow Green
Used as background color for roadwork
signs whose legends relate to personal working
Fluorescent Orange
Background color for direction signs.
Green
Background color for service signs.
Blue
Reserved as background color for all tourist facility directional and information signs.
Brown
OSH Standard color for “Fire Protection”. To call attention to fire protection equipment apparatus and
facilities
Red
OSH Standard color for designating “safety”.
Green
OSH Standard color for the designation of “traffic” and housekeeping marking.
White
OSH Standard color to designate “caution” and for marking physical hazards such as striking against, stumbling, falling. tripping, and “caught in between”.
Yellow
OSH standard color for “Alert”. To designate dangerous parts of machines or energized equipment.
Orange
OSH standard color for Precaution. To designate caution, limited to warning against
starting, use of, or the movement of equipment which is under repair or
being worked upon.
Blue
OSH standard color for “Radiation”. To designate hazards. Yellow is used in combination with purple for markers, such as tags, labels, signs and floor markers.
Purple
Among the four Sizes for Regulatory Signs dedicated for urban low speed roads.
Size A
Among the Four Sizes for Regulatory Signs dedicated for rural roads with speed limits between 60 and 70 kph.
Size B
Among the Four Sizes for Regulatory Signs dedicated for high speed rural highways’ multi-lane urban roads.
Size C
Among the Four Sizes for Regulatory Signs dedicated for Expressways.
Size D
Types of Pavement Lines and Markings
Longitudinal lines, Transverse lines, Other lines, Other markings
Shape reserved exclusively for STOP signs.
Octagon
Shape reserved for Give Way Sign
Inverted Equilateral Triangle
Shape for Railroad crossing Advance warning signs and for Civil Defense Evacuation Route Marker
Circle
Shape used for Warning Signs
Equilateral triangle
Shape used for directional signs, service signs, roadwork signs, signs for special purposes, and supplementary plates for warning signs.
Rectangle with horizontal long axis
Shape used for facility information signs, instruction signs, guide signs, and destinations of point of interest.
Rectangle with vertical long axis
Shape used for pedestrian and school crossing sign.
Pentagon with point up.
The three elements of sight distance:
- Driver Eye Height
- Object Height
- Sight Distance
What are the two components of stopping sight distance?
Reaction distance and Braking Distance
The distance traveled while the driver
perceives a hazard, decides to take action, then acts by starting to apply the
brakes to start slowing down
Reaction distance
The distance required for the vehicle to slow down and stop.
Braking Distance
A protected water area to provide safe and
suitable accommodation for ships for the transfer of cargo, refueling, repairs, etc.
Harbor
A sheltered place where the ship may receive or discharge cargo.
Port
A navigable channel in a harbor, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.
Fairway
A place where the ship can moor.
Berth
A continuous structure built parallel to
along the margin of the sea or alongside
riverbanks, canals, or waterways where vessels may lie alongside to receive or discharge cargo, embark or disembark passengers or lie at rest.
Wharf
Can be substituted to wharf
when applied to great solid structures in large ports.
Quay
Any structure built into the sea but not
parallel to the coastline and includes any stage, stair landing place, landing stage jetty, floating barge, and pontoon, any bridge or other works connected there with.
Pier
A landing stage or small pier at which
boats can dock or be moored.
Jetty
A berth structure for mooring the ship
on the open sea.
Dolphin
An isolated piled or gravity structure used either to maneuver a ship or to facilitate holding it in position at its berth.
Dolphin
A type of dock consisting of a rectangular
basin dug into the shore of a body of water and provided with a removable enclosure wall or gate on the side toward the water, used for major repairs and overhaul of
vessels.
Dry Dock