Fundamentals of Transportation/Planning/Additional Problems

Additional Problems

 * 1) List five inputs to transportation planning models – are they measured or forecast?
 * 2) Why is modeling important, (give reasons, purposes of modeling)?
 * 3) What would be a possible complication or problem that would arise if in the planning of a project no forecasting was used?
 * 4) What are the steps in the rational planning model?
 * 5) Why is the rational planning model not always used (examples when it is not used)?
 * 6) What are some of the factors preventing accurate forecasting?
 * 7) List the steps in the four-step urban transportation planning model?
 * 8) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of public vs. privately owned transportation?
 * 9)  What types of matrices are there in the transportation model, how do they differ?
 * 10) How does the effect of population increase effect transportation planning?
 * 11) What are the step in the generic modeling process?
 * 12) Are all transportation modes publicly owned? Give examples of public and private.
 * 13) When would it be reasonable to use the rational planning model?
 * 14) What significance does the equilibrium point in transportation economics have in design?
 * 15) What makes forecasting with one method better than another, and how are differences resolved?
 * 16) How do measured inputs affect the forecasting inputs?
 * 17) What is the idealized model to plan for a transportation project?
 * 18) On what type of economic model does transportation depend?
 * 19) Who, other than planners and engineers, should be involved in defining the needs and objectives for future projects?
 * 20) Can we steer development and growth trends through transportation planning decision?
 * 21) Give three examples of intermodalism?
 * 22) Are actual transportation routes planned using the Rational Planning model?
 * 23) List at least 10 things that must be considered before undertaking a major transit project?
 * 24) How is the rational planning model used?
 * 25) Why do we combine vector matrices to a full matrix?
 * 26) Is household income measured or forecast?
 * 27) What statistical methods play a role in transportation engineering/planning?
 * 28) Who measures transit use or travel times?
 * 29) What is a zone centroid?
 * 30) What is forecasting?
 * 31) How are various transportation needs provided?
 * 32) What is considered a carrier?
 * 33) How does vehicle occupancy influence our design process?
 * 34) Is rational planning process more likely to be used on major projects or small ones?
 * 35) What are the axes labels on the supply / demand curve?
 * 36) Explain why all forecasts are wrong?
 * 37) How does supply and demand work? How do they relate?
 * 38) How does intermodealism affect forecasting?
 * 39) What is the difference between modalism and intermodalism?

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