Hi all,
Sitting for my PTOE exam next month. I'm currently going through the ITE PTOE refresher course, there doesn't seem to be much guidance on how to study outside of this. Is there anything that you wish you would have studied or read up on outside of this, that you think would have helped during the test?
Thanks in advance.
This was from another post. Pretty helpful. The quantitative questions were really straightforward. If you are pretty familiar with MUTCD, Green Book, and HCM you should be good:
Took the exam last month, it wasn't super hard, but it was challenging as it needs more memorization than the PE.
Studied 3 days for it, did two ITE prep modules a day, Company paid for them, totally worth it if you are a lazy procrastinator like myself.
My tips:
1) Practice with the calculator, I bought mine the day before, and I would have been screwed if I didn't familiarize and set it up before the exam
2) If they give you a mini-dry erase board, make a big fuss about it and ask for paper and pencil (I did, I got them)
3) If you are completely clueless, don't spend more than 30 seconds on a question, skip and come back later
4) morning and afternoon sessions have the same mix of questions
5) Memorize or know by hearth the following (if you don't know the acronyms... you are not ready!):
PHF = Hourly Volume / (4 x Peak 15 mins Volume)
TAPER LENGTH L = WS^2 (for s<40) L = WS (for s> 45)
Merging Taper = L, Shifting Taper = L/2
PRT = 2.5 seconds
Maximum grades according to design speed (70 mph - 5%, 30 mph 7 to 12%)
Driver eye height 3.5 ft, object height 2 ft
MAximum superelevation 12% (8% if snow/ice)
Road Functional Classification: Principal Arterial, Minor Arterial, Major Collector, Minor Collector, Local
Definition of negligence and RSA
Shall is mandatory - standard, Should is advisory - guidance, May is permissive - option
Sign colors (VERY IMPORTANT!) and type (regulatory, warning, guide, information)
Speed limits are 5 mph within 85th percentile of FFS
Difference and meaning between TMS and SMS
Average walking speed is 3.5 ft/s
Urban areas with more than 50k population must have a transportation planning process, areas with 200k are TMAs
LRTP, TIP, and 4 steps model (Generation, Distribution, Mode, Assignment)
Relationship among Flow, Speed, Density and their reciprocals (Headway, TT, Spacing)
Under base conditions freeway capacity is 2,250-2,400 veh/hr/lane
Incident impact on highway capacity
Transportation Demand Management strategies
Walking phase should be at least 7 seconds, but may be reduce to 4 in special cases
Dilemma zone, signal preemption, TSP
Work Zone duration and timing (long term > 3 days, intermediate 1-3 days, Short 1-12 hours)
Good luck!
