China Tranportation Spring

Question 1

What are the challenges that the concentration of populations leads?

Answer 1

Tranportation

Water quality

Urban/Suburban sprawl

Sanitation

Question 2

What the minimum population for a metropolitan area?

Answer 2

10 million people

Question 3

World’s biggest metropolitan area?

Answer 3

Shanghai

Question 4

By 2010 the United Nations estimated the urban population will account for what percentage of the total human population?

Answer 4

55%

Question 5

Roads build for monarch?

Answer 5

Qin Dynasty

Question 6

First odometer that was in a carrage?

Answer 6

Jin Dynasty

Question 7

What dynasty created the longest canal in the world?

Answer 7

Sui Dynasty

Question 8

During which dynasty there were many voyages made to prove the capability of China?

Answer 8

Ming Dynasty

Question 9

Who Championed the Special Economic Zones?

Answer 9

Deng Xiaoping

Question 10

The Current plan is now referred as?

Answer 10

Guideline

Question 11

Current status of china in terms of

Mileage of superhighway open to traffic?

Answer 11

2nd in the world

Question 12

Current status of china in terms of railway business?

Answer 12

3rd in the world

Question 13

Current status of china in terms of port infrastrastructure?

Answer 13

1st in the World

Question 14

Current status of china in terms of world passanger and freight volumes?

Answer 14

1st in the world

Question 15

What are some of the ways to meet the challenges of Tranportation of China according to Wang Quingyun?

Answer 15

Lies in development

Vigorously push forward the Transport Reform

Construction of Tranportation should be accelerated

Question 16

In terms of the tranportation for tomorrow what are the challenges that will be faced?

Answer 16

Transit

Air tranportation

Safety

Air quality

Parking

Access Management

Sustainability

Question 17

NAFTA

What was the

North American Free Trade Agreement impact?

Answer 17

Created world’s largest free trade

Question 18

How much cost of transportation (including inventory holding cost) can account of the sale price?

Answer 18

20 %

Question 19

Which has the greates revenue or expenditure in Freight Movement in the United States?

Answer 19

Truck movement / Warehousing

Question 20

Traffic managers are responsible to seek the best strategies for?

Answer 20

Moving raw material to the manufacturing plant

Storing good

Moving the finished product to the Market

Question 21

The cost of shipment has two components?

Answer 21

Cost of carrying the product by whatever Mode

Cost of the time of transport = holding cost

Question 22

What are the primary surface freight modes?

(Piensa en papitas)

Answer 22

Barges

Railroads

International shipping

Trucking

Oil and gas pipelines

Shipping on the great lakes

Question 23

Trucks are generally limited to how many pounds?

Answer 23

80,000 pounds

Question 24

Originally what mode was the major source of movement on land?

Answer 24

Railroads

Question 25

What states are the major waterway routes in the Unite States?

Answer 25

Mississippi and Ohio

Question 26

What are the top 2 U.S ports that handle about 50 % of Freight?

Answer 26

South Lousiana, LA Houston, TX

Question 27

World busiest container TEUs?

Answer 27

Singapore Shanghai Hong kong

Question 28

Who is the world's busiest airport for freight?

Answer 28

Hong Kong

Question 29

TEU means?

Answer 29

The twenty foot equivalent unit is an inexact unit of cargo capacity

Question 30

Top three global merchandise exporters?

Answer 30

China Germany U.S accounted for 26% of the value of total worlwide freight exports

Question 31

For the United States top three trading partners?

Answer 31

Canada China Mexico

Question 32

Which country has the world's most extensive freight transportation network when measure in kilometers?

Answer 32

United States

Question 33

In the U.S what % contributes the the gross domestic product?

Answer 33

5.6%

Question 34

What is the safest mode of transportation in terms of overall fatality?

Answer 34

Air transportation

Question 35

The level of activity at airports is generally reported as a function of ?

Answer 35

Number of passengers served Amount of cargo carried Number of operations performed

Question 36

Total passangers refers to?

Answer 36

Number of passengers that either board or deplane an aircraft

Question 37

Aircraft operation refers to?

Answer 37

Takeoff or landings - and is used as a measure of activity at all airports

Question 38

Primary measure of activity at general aviation (GA) airports?

Answer 38

Local operations Itinerant operationsw/

Question 39

Landside refers to?

Answer 39

facilities for further movement on land, like arrival and deaprture concourses, baggage handling

Question 40

Airside refers to ?

Answer 40

Landing aids, runway and the apron the serves to bring the passenger to the gate

Question 41

What is the primary mission of the Federal Aviation Administration?

Answer 41

to oversee the SAFETY of civil aviation

Question 42

What is NPIAS stand for?

Answer 42

National Plan of Integrated Airport System

Question 43

Categories of airports listed in NPIAS are?

Answer 43

Commercial service airports Primary airports General Aviation airports Reliever airports

Question 44

TRUE OR FALSE Most airports in the U.S are privately owned?

Answer 44

TRUE

Question 45

What are the 3 factors influential in saping the developement of metropolitan areas?

Answer 45

Historical evolution of transportation Investment and pricing practices supporting infrastructure Cultural Changes and priorities of society

Question 46

Mass transit service is generally classified as? (street fighter character)

Answer 46

**R**ural **I**nterregional **U**rban

Question 47

According to the U.S Bureau what number of inhabitans is used to describe a rural place?

Answer 47

Fewer than 2,500 inhabitants

Question 48

In terms of service Rapid transit is consider as ?

Answer 48

Highest level of transit service

Question 49

In terms of service Express transit is consider as?

Answer 49

an intermediate leve of service

Question 50

Local transit is intended to provide?

Answer 50

A high degree of accessibility at the price of low operating speeds

Question 51

What modes does the transit service generally include?

Answer 51

Bus Light rail transit Heavy rail transit Commuter rail

Question 52

In terms of passenger miles what mode has the greater percentage?

Answer 52

Bus 44% (minimum is Light Rail 4%)

Question 53

What percentage of U.S households have no access to public transit?

Answer 53

53%

Question 54

The European Union defines HSR as rail that operates at an average speed of?

Answer 54

200km/h

Question 55

The U.S Federal Railroad Administration defines HSR as rail that operates at an average speed of?

Answer 55

177km/h

Question 56

Reason why U.S. has struggle to build high speed rail?

Answer 56

Goverment promotion of other modes Complex legislative requirements Competition with the automobile

Question 57

Which country has the largest high speed rail (HSR) in the world?

Answer 57

China with 8000 km in service

Question 58

What are the benefit of Magleve trains?

Answer 58

Reduces friction losses and increases acceleration

Question 59

What percentage of energy does the Magleve uses compared to normal high speed rail?

Answer 59

20-30%

Question 60

How long is the U.S. HSR system?

Answer 60

700 Km long

Question 61

A leader must be?

Answer 61

competent (technically) humble high moral character

Question 62

For managers the task is the end, for leaders the task is the ?

Answer 62

Vehicle

Question 63

What are the domains of leadership for an LDS member?

Answer 63

Home Church Work Society Class project

Question 64

The four leadeships styles are based on two concepts?

Answer 64

Supportive and Directive

Question 65

What are the four characteristics of high performace teams?

Answer 65

Enabling Leadership Alignment on purpose Effective group process Self awareness

Question 66

Five dysfuctions of a team? | (brand of a tennis shoes)

Answer 66

**F**ear of conflict **I**nnattention to Results **L**ack of Commitment **A**bsence of trust **A**voidance of Accountability

Question 67

The world moves into the future as a result of ?

Answer 67

Decisions not plans

Question 68

What is MPO stand for?

Answer 68

Metropolitan planning organization

Question 69

Who are the local MPOs in the area?

Answer 69

Mountainland Association of Governments Wasatch Front Regional Council

Question 70

Urban transportation planning answers 4 questions?

Answer 70

Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What will guide us? How will we get there?

Question 71

What does UTP stand for?

Answer 71

Urban Transportation planning

Question 72

What most go hand and hand with the urban transportation planning (UTP)?

Answer 72

Land-use

Question 73

What are the 4 steps of decision making?

Answer 73

Problem Identification Debate and choice Implementation Evaluation and feedback

Question 74

5 Question from Trip Purpose (TP) in demand forecasting?

Answer 74

For what purpose? At what time of the day? From where to where By what mode With whom, alone or with someone else?

Question 75

Testing the model's predictive capabilities is known as?

Answer 75

Validation

Question 76

What are the two major types of data tha are need for most demand analyses?

Answer 76

Historical data Forecasts

Question 77

What does it refer to when derivad demand uses the word disutility?

Answer 77

Generalize cost of travel

Question 78

Supply Curve is?

Answer 78

Quantity of a given good vs. performace

Question 79

4 steps of land use / socieconomic conditions?

Answer 79

Trip Generation Trip Distribution Mode Split Traffic Assignment

Question 80

What the purpose of the Highway Safety Improvement Program?

Answer 80

To reduce the number of fatal and serious / life changing crashes

Question 81

Crash Frequency is =?

Answer 81

Number of crashes =---------------------------------------- Period of Time

Question 82

What are the two methods used for expected crash frequency?

Answer 82

Empirical Bayes Hierachal Bayes

Question 83

Crash Severity -National Safety council KABCO stands for?

Answer 83

**K** - atal injury **A** - incapacitating injury **B** - Non-incapacitatin evident injury **C ** - possible injury **O** - non injury / property damage only

Question 84

What is the acess relationship (intersection hierarchy)?

Answer 84

Freeway Major & minor Arterial Major & minor Collector Local Termination / Parking

Question 85

4 benefits of Access Management?

Answer 85

Safety Mobility Economic Impact Aesthetic impacts

Question 86

Triple bottom line refers to ?

Answer 86

Profit - Economic Planet - Environmental People - Social

Question 87

Seek strategies that meet current community needs without denying necessary resources to future inhabitants?

Answer 87

Tranportation Sustainability

Question 88

To the United States the concept of sustainable tranportation means?

Answer 88

Is clean and quiet Is efficient Does not contribute to pollutiion Uses nonrenewable energy wisely Contributes positively to the country's economy Motto: move people rather than moving cars

Question 89

How do we measure sustainable transportation?

Answer 89

Quatitative data (numerically measured info) Qualitative data (aesthetics)