LE 1

Question 1

Ratio of weight of the localized material divided by weight of finished product

Answer 1

Material Index

Question 2

Maximum number of people that can pass a given location during a given time period

Answer 2

Route Capacity

Question 3

Condition on networks that occurs with increased usage and is characterized by slower speed, longer trip times, and increase queuing of traffic

Answer 3

Congestion

Question 4

Prominent, visual features of a city (Kevin Lynch)

Answer 4

Landmark

Question 5

Portion of transport cost that consumers/users pay for

Answer 5

Rates

Question 6

Channels along which interaction occurs between any two nodes

Answer 6

Route

Question 7

Distance an elephant can travel from dawn to dusk

Answer 7

Yojana

Question 8

Nodal distribution pattern with greater volume of interaction due to lesser transport cost

Answer 8

Clustered

Question 9

Known as TIME CONTOURS

Answer 9

Isochrones

Question 10

A localized economy in which a large number of companies, services, and industries exist in close proximity to one another and benefit from cost reductions

Answer 10

Agglomeration Economies

Question 11

Translators are good examples of relay nodes for which category?

Answer 11

Individuals

Question 12

Transport cost that is related to loading, transshipment, and unloading

Answer 12

Terminal costs

Question 13

Nodes that are neither the ultimate origin nor the destination of the interactive process. Primary purpose is to receive flows.

Answer 13

Relay Nodes

Question 14

Paths of shortest distance between two points

Answer 14

Geodesic Paths

Question 15

LOS for traffic having a VCR value of 1, also known as Heavy Traffic

Answer 15

E

Question 16

Costs incurred before any traffic at all passes. Also known as INESCAPABLE COST

Answer 16

Fixed Costs

Question 17

Element of Private Costs that covers the providing facilities at the beginning and completion of a journey

Answer 17

Interchange costs

Question 18

The ideal location of production when the material index is greater than 1 is…

Answer 18

Near the source / materials

Question 19

A demand in one location is satisfied by the supply of another

Answer 19

Complementarity

Question 20

The ability if a thing or a person to move or be moved

Answer 20

Transferability

Question 21

location that offers an alternative

Answer 21

Intervening Opportunity

Question 22

Develop as new firms arrive to provide the growing industry with components, supplies, specialized services, or facilities.

Answer 22

Backward Linkages

Question 23

Develop as new firms arrive to take the finished products of the growing industry and use them in their own processing, assembly, finishing, packaging, or distribution operations.

Answer 23

Forward Linkages

Question 24

Difference in unit cost of production
due solely to differences in aggregate
volume of output

Answer 24

Economies of Scale

Question 25

Capacity of a commodity or service to satisfy human want

Answer 25

UTILITY

Question 26

Distance between 2 points is the intervening spatial interval between their absolute locations

Answer 26

EUCLIDIAN SPACE

Question 27

What are the different measures of distance?

Answer 27

Physical, Time/Temporal, Economic, Perceptual

Question 28

Consists of a relatively small area within which they can specify relative locations more or less accurately

Answer 28

Terra cognita

Question 29

The termination of a district

Answer 29

Edge

Question 30

A center of activity

Answer 30

Nodes

Question 31

elastic; spatial sequence and contiguity of points, lines and areas is maintained

Answer 31

Topological Space

Question 32

Costs internally assumed by the providers of transport services.

Answer 32

Transport Costs

Question 33

Costs incurred by individual or transport operator in providing particular services

Answer 33

Private Costs

Question 34

Incurred as a result of external effects of transport activity

Answer 34

Social Costs

Question 35

Pricing is dependent on the origin of all movement of that commodity regardless of its actual origin. Now illegal

Answer 35

Basing Point System

Question 36

Different types of materials that influence transport costs

Answer 36

Ubiquitous and Localized, Pure and Gross

Question 37

The ideal location of production when the material index is less than 1 is...

Answer 37

Near the market

Question 38

The ideal location of production when the material index is equal to 1 is...

Answer 38

Dependent on the nature of the product

Question 39

Places are getting closer in terms of monetary costs to overcome distances

Answer 39

Cost-space convergence

Question 40

Travel time to overcome distances is getting shorter

Answer 40

Time-space convergence

Question 41

A type of node where a collection of two or more individuals engaged in the supply or demand of any good or service as a specific location

Answer 41

Establishment

Question 42

A type of node where spatially juxtaposed collection of establishments engaged in diverse want satisfying activities for a population

Answer 42

Settlement

Question 43

The two functions of nodes

Answer 43

1. Origins and destinations of movement 2. Relays of Movement

Question 44

Three types of nodal distribution

Answer 44

Clustered, Random, Uniform