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