Summertime Road Security: Check Your Traffic Directing IQ

On the road again? Both highways and inner-city roads are often more trafficked during summertime due to vacationing and tourism. Likewise, parking lots are more regularly populated. And since this extra traffic is coming from non-locals, confusion and even bewilderment about directions and traffic rules can lead to more mayhem on the roads.

Enter traffic directors. You know, those wearing the color orange, somehow notorious for signifying “slow down, watch out?” They section off stretches of the road, and dot it with orange cones by day, and orange flares by night.

Since you’ll see more of these traffic directors over the summer, we’ve put together a little trivia quiz to train everyone on what means what in traffic directing.

ISSM provides trained security personnel who specialize in traffic directing services for any public or private agency, group or individual.  Contact us for more info, and in the meantime, you can check  your traffic directing signs IQ, below.

1. 1. If a traffic director simply wants to get a driver or pedestrian’s attention, which whistle rhythm is used?
   1. Several short whistles, staccato style
   2. Three long whistles
   3. Continual short whistles, until attention is received
   4. Any of the above
2.  2. The hand signal used by vehicle traffic directors to indicate “stop” is:
   1. Palm facing driver, moving in clockwise motion.
   2. One arm straightened parallel to the ground, with palm to driver, fingers straight up, touched together.
   3. One arm straightened parallel to the ground, with palm to driver, index finger pointed straight up, other fingers folded into the palm.
   4. Fisted hand, with index finger moving side to side, as if to say “No”.
3. 3. A hand-held object used to guide traffic during darkness is best described as:
   1. A flashlight baton with a red or orange cover
   2. Flares with special fire safety handles.
   3. An illuminated octagonal stop sign.
   4. a) & c)
4. 4. The hand glove donned by traffic directors during the night to signify “stop” is what color?
   1. Orange
   2. Yellow
   3. White
   4. Red
5. 5. If a traffic director wants to use a sound to indicate “Go”, what whistle rhythm would they use?
   1. Two short whistles
   2. One long whistle
   3. Several short whistles, staccato style
   4. Two long whistles

Answers

1.   1. a
2.   2. b
3.   3. d
4.   4. c
5.   5. a

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