Chapter 2: Highway Transportation System

44,000

About how many people die on US highways each year?

1.6 deaths

How many deaths are there in the US per 100 million miles traveled?

4 million

How many miles of paved roads are there?

230 million

How many registered vehicles are there in the United States?

freeways, interstate highways, express ways, state highways, U.S. highways, parish roads

Name 5 different types of highways included in the Highway Transportation System

personal and individual transportation, freedom to come and go as we wish, going to work, to shop, to school, social and recreation activities, choice and length of vacations

Name five reasons the HTS is important to the US economy.

department of motor vehicles law enforcement agencies traffic courts engineering emergency response system education

Name the six means of management of the Highway Transportation System.

people, vehicles, roads

Name the three main components of the Highway Transportation System.

highway engineering works to make our HTS the safest system in the world and vehicle engineering works to make vehicles safer and easier to operate

Name the two ways in which engineering factors in to the HTS.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What US president started the Interstate system?

careless, and/or reckless operation failure to yield following too closely speeding unknown/unspecified

What are the four leading causes of vehicle crashes in Louisiana?

East and West

What direction do even numbered interstates run?

Federal Highway Administration

What federal agency has the responsibility of improving roadway safety in the US?

when a vehicle's tires start skimming on the surface of the water instead of gripping the roads

What is hydroplaning?

traffic collisions

What is the number one cause of teen deaths in the United States?

40%

What percentage of crashes occur at intersections?

60%

What percentage of freight is transported on roads in the US?

75%

What percentage of roads in the United States are owned by local governments?

88%

What percentage of the US population has a driver's license?