Reviewer Flashcards
Covering all modes of transport; air, land, and sea for both passenger and freight.
Multi-modal
Encompassing the problems and viewpoints of government, private industry, and public.
Multi-sector
Ranging across a spectrum of issues that includes national and international policy, planning of regional system, the location and design of specific facilities, carrier management issues, and regulatory, institutional and financial policies.
Multi-problem
Aiming at national and regional economic development, urban development, environment quality, and social quality, as well as service to users and financial and economic feasibility.
Multi-objective
Drawing on the theories and methods of engineering, economics, operations research, political science, psychology, other natural, and social sciences, management and law.
Multi-disciplinary
composed of traced paths on which are bound vehicles. They have an average level of physical constrains linked to the types of locomotives and a low gradient is required, particularly for freight.
Rail transportation
large consumers of space with the lowest level of physical constraints among transportation modes. They are mainly linked to light industries where rapid movements of freight in small batches are the norm
Road transportation
practically unlimited as they can be laid on land or underwater.
Pipelines
the most effective mode to move large quantities of cargo over long distances.
Maritime transportation
has been accommodating growing quantities of high value freight and is playing a growing role in global logistics.
Air transportation
Concerns a variety of modes used in combination so that the respective advantages of each mode are better exploited.
Intermodal transportation
the term describes a rural, lesser traveled way
road
denotes urban roadway.
street
refers to a major rural traveled way; more recently it has been used for a road, in either a rural or urban area, where points of entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled.
Highway
An access-controlled road with direct user charges
tollway
The Father of Modern Road Building
Trésaguet
The President and Founder of the Institute of Civil Engineer
Telford
his total structural reliance on broken stone represented the largest paradigm shift in the history of road pavements.
McAdam
The first engineered and planned road in the United States
Lancaster Turnpike
also known as the National Pike, was an even more notable road-building feat
The Cumberland Road
a mixture of bitumen and stone
Asphalt
a mixture of cement and stone
concrete
He codified the specifications for asphalt mixes and developed two forms of asphalt
Richardson
a horizontal structure supported by in situ natural material
Pavement
the single most important element in pavement performance and involves handling existing watercourses, removing water from the pavement surface, and controlling underground water in the pavement structure
Drainage
a sheltered area of the sea in which vessels could be launched, built or taken for repair; or could seek refuge in time of storm; or provide for loading and unloading of cargo and passengers.
Harbors
Natural formations affording safe discharge facilities for ships on sea coasts, in the form of creeks and basins, are called natural harbors.
Natural Harbors
This type of harbor is protected on sides by headlands protection and it requires man-made protection only at the entrance.
Semi-Natural Harbors
It is an area protected from the effect of waves either by breakwaters or by dredging.
Artificial Harbors
A deep navigable channel with a protective natural bank or shoal to seaward.
Natural Roadsteads
A confined area naturally enclosed by islands as in a creek if available
Circumscribed Natural Roadstead
These may be created suitably by constructing a breakwater or wall parallel to the coaster curvilinear from the coast.
Artificial Roadsteads
Its locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water, for commercial demand, and for shelter from wind and waves.
Port
is an intermediate stop for a ship on its sailing itinerary. At these ports, cargo ships may take on supplies or fuel, as well as unloading and loading cargo while cruise liners have passengers get on or off ship.
Port of call
the country’s largest oil port and a major Ro-Ro terminal
Batangas International Port or locally known as the Batangas Pier
It is one of the busiest, largest, historical and most important of ports in the Philippines
Port of Subic
The busiest seaport in the Philippines in terms of annual passengers. The largest domestic port in the Philippines
Port of Cebu
the most powerful force acting on harbor barriers and against which the engineer has to contend
sea wave
Refers to the protective barrier constructed to enclose harbors and to keep the harbor waters undisturbed by the effect of heavy and strong seas.
Breakwaters
It is a heterogeneous assemblage of natural rubble, undressed stone blocks, rip rap, supplemented in many cases by artificial blocks of huge bulk and weight, the whole being deposited without any regard to bond or bedding.
Heap or mound breakwater
A solid superstructure that consists of a Quay protected by a parapet on the sea face isconstructed on top of the rubble mound.
Mound with superstructure
a big regular wall raised to construct a harbor basin on solid natural or/and artificial foundation to resist the forces and their components generated by incoming water and waves.
Upright wall breakwater
Platforms or landing places are necessary for ships to come, close enough to the shore, for purposes of embarkation, disembarkation, etc. at the same time.
Wharves
The structures which are built perpendicular or oblique to the shore of a river or sea.
Piers
Wharves along and parallel to the’ shore, are generally called quays and their protection walls
Quays
These are the structures in the form of piled projections and they are built out from the shore to deep water and they may be constructed either for a navigable river or in the sea.
Jetties
The cushion which is provided on the face of jetty for ships to come in contact
Fender
It is a lofty structure popularly built of masonry or reinforced concrete in the shape of a tall tower on a high pedestal.
Lighthouse
Small ships displacing about 500 tons are used for this purpose.
Light ships
Any prominent object, natural or artificially constructed, easily identifiable and capable of being used as a means to indicate and guide in navigation
Beacons
floating structures of small size employed for demarcation like entrances, approach channel used for indicating direction changes in means of alignment.
Buoys
a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of up to 62 kilometers per hour (kph) or less than 34 nautical miles per hour (knots).
Tropical Depression (TD)
a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 62 to 88 kph or 34 - 47 knots.
Tropical Storm (TS)
a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 87 to 117 kph or 48 - 63 knots.
Severe Tropical Storm (STS)
a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 87 to 117 kph or 48 - 63 knots.
Severe Tropical Storm (STS)
a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 118 to 184 kph or 64 - 99 knots.
Typhoon (TY)
a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed exceeding 185 kph or more than 100 knots.
Super Typhoon (STY)
waves generated by storms, which occur outside area of observation.
Swells
waves formed by moving ship or boats
Wakes
the abnormal rise of the sea level that occurs when a typhoon passes by.
Storm surge
refers to the prevailing winds which are seasonal blowing in one direction over
part of the year and in the opposite direction the remainder of the year.
Monsoon
Horses and camels are domesticated and used for transport.
4000 BC
River boats are invented
3500 BC
Paved roads are built by the Romans
312 BC
First hot air balloon launched
1783
First steam-powered railway train is built by George Stephenson
1814
The earliest bicycle is made
1816
First successful airship built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1900
Wright Brothers fly the first motor-driven aeroplane
1904
First man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, launched into orbit
1957
