Past Papers Flashcards
What can be done to improve the railway network until the HS2 has been built?
- Investing in faster trains and route improvements
- increasing the capacity of the trains
- accelerating journey times
- improving links to major ports and airports
Identify initiatives aimed at encouraging modal shift?
- Park and Ride
- Cycle to work schemes
- buses
- walking
Identify areas where carbon dioxide can be reduced and fuel efficiency enhanced?
- Use of sustainable biofuels (first generation, second generation and third generations
- Consumer information
- Legal Instruments such as tax incentives for low carbon products and processes
- improved transpot infrastructure with intelligent transport systems to avoid traffic congestion
What is the maximum RFC threshold?
0.85 or 85%
Why is there a need to promote modal shift?
- to encourage drivers to consider other means of transport
- Reduce congestion
- Reduce emissions
- improve sustainable traffic management
What approach can be used to encourage modal shift?
An approach which uses incentives and disincentives known as the carrot and stick method
What are the main components of a geometric road design?
Horizontal and Vertical alignment
What kind of travel plan is used for a small residential scheme?
travel plan statement
What does a Travel Plan Statement Include
A description of all on site features such as pedestrian and cycle routes, parking facilities, site informations, sustainable travel information.
- Sustainable travel pack for new house occupiers including, pedestrian, cycle, and public transport information and maps.
List methods which can be incorporated into the design of a road to keep speed levels low?
- on street parking
- more bends horizontally on a road
- Changes in priority/ no priority junction
- Reduced visibility
- introduce street furniture
- narrow 2 way carriageway
- shared spaces
What are the decisions in relation to trips which represent a basic travel demand model
- Temporal Decisions
- Route Decisions
- Modal Decisions
- Destination Decisions
Discuss departure from design standards in relation to the geometric design of roads
in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
- Requires approval from Highways
- Departures from standards is a possible way to overcome circumstances of exceptional difficulty. where you cant overcome by relaxations.
- The third tier within the design standards for geometric design, in the Design Manual
for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) are departures from standard.
What is the sight distance?
length visible to the driver both horizontally and vertically
Parameters used in deciding the provision of climbing lanes
- hill severity
- traffic volume
- traffic composition
State the main assumption establishing the FOSD used on two lane roads
the overtaking driver is 2 design speeds below the design speed with facing vehicle travelling at the design speed.
