Transportation ang Public Facilities Planning

Question 1

Important Factors in Transportation Planning

Answer 1

Efficiency

Quality

Equity

Question 2

to achieve efficient management and better management of existing resources

Answer 2

Efficiency

Question 3

to reduce a negative impact to the traffic that produce pollution

Answer 3

Quality

Question 4

to meet travel demand and response for all communities

Answer 4

Equity

Question 5

General policy of transportation planning

Answer 5

Social Aspects

Economic Aspects

Physical Aspects

Question 6

concerns how much traffic is going to be entering and exiting a site during the course of the day

Answer 6

Trip generation

Question 7

Two ways of trip generation

Answer 7

Trip generation software

Proxy sites

Question 8

the institute of transportation engineers website compiled transportation data from the past 40 years to give planners a rough idea of how much traffic is going to be generated on their site

Answer 8

Trip generation software

Question 9

existing buildings with a similar transportation background as the project

Answer 9

Proxy sites

Question 10

focuses on how traffic interacts with the local road network

Answer 10

Traffic assignment

Question 11

engineers can see which roadways and intersections might become too congested in the future and what changes need to be made for the road network to become relatively traffic-free

Answer 11

Sycnhotransportation

Question 12

determines the origin or destination of trips that are generated at a given acitvity

Answer 12

Trip distribution

Question 13

determines which mode they will use to make a trip

Answer 13

Mode split

Question 14

determine which route on the transportation network will be used when making trips

Answer 14

Trip assignment

Question 15

actual rate of traffic flow

Answer 15

Traffic volume

Question 16

maximum rate of traffic flow

Answer 16

Traffic capacity

Question 17

Types of Capacity

Answer 17

basic capacity

possible capacity

practical capacity

Question 18

an equivalence factor used to convert the flow of different vehicle classes into one standard vehicle known as passenger car

Answer 18

Passenger car unit (PCU)

Question 19

gives an understanding of how much traffic a given transportation facility can accomodate

Answer 19

Capacity

Question 20

tries to answer how good the present traffic situation is on a given facility

Answer 20

Level of service (LOS)

Question 21

the instantaneous speed of a vehicle at a point or cross section

Answer 21

spot speed

Question 22

ave. speed of vehicles in a certain road length at any time

Answer 22

space mean speed

Question 23

ave. of instantaenous speeds of observed vehicles at the spot

Answer 23

time mean speed

Question 24

is one of the major problems that is created by the increasing road traffic

Answer 24

Parking

Question 25

varies during the day and reaches a peak value during heavy parking demands time

Answer 25

Parking demand

Question 26

refers to the practices prevalent in the area under consideration, mainly; whether the vehicles are parked on street or off street

Answer 26

Parking characteristics

Question 27

the area under study is surveyed and kerb parking and off street parking facilities are plotted on a map

Answer 27

Parking space inventory

Question 28

Cause of road accidents

Answer 28

road users

vehicle

road and its condition

traffic

road design

Question 29

Transportation Modes

Answer 29

Private

Public

Para-transit

Non-motorized transport

Question 30

It refers to the essential services that cannot be provided directly to individual homes and are instead used in public spaces to meet community needs

Answer 30

Public facilities