Highway Terminology Quiz
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Acceleration lane - an auxiliary lane used by an entering vehicle to accelerate before entering the travelled way. access control - the condition whereby the road agency either partially or fully controls the right of abutting landowners to have ______ to and from a public highway or road.

access

Access interchange - an interchange providing ______ to a freeway from the adjacent nonfreeway road network. Referred to in American practice as a service interchange.

access

Arterial highway - designed to move relatively large volumes of traffic at high speeds over long distances. Typically, arterials offer little or no ______ to abutting properties. In the latter case, referred to as a freeway.

access

Auxiliary lane - short lane located immediately adjacent to the basic or through lane to accommodate some or other special circumstance such as a turning movement to right or to left, acceleration to or deceleration from the speeds prevailing on the travelled way, or heavy vehicles reduced to crawling speeds on steep upgrades or downgrades. average daily traffic (ADT) - the number of vehicles per day passing a point on the highway during a defined ______. If this period extends from 1 January to 31 December, reference is to annual average daily traffic (AADT).

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Average running speed - the distance summation for all vehicles divided by the running time summation for all vehicles. Also referred to as space mean speed, whereas time mean speed - is simply the average of all recorded ______.

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