Transpo

Question 1

Transportation Engineering

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Application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management on facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.

Question 2

Traffic Engineering

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Branch of transportation engineering which deals with planning, geometric design and traffic operations of roads, street and highways, their networks, terminals, abutting lands and relationship with other modes of transportation.

Question 3

– Physical Facilities\n– Fleets\n– operating bases and facilities\n– organizations\n– operating strategies\n

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Components of Transportation System

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Physical Civil Engineering

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Civil engineering activity related to the provision of physical facilities, includes the design, construction and maintenance of fixed transportation facilities

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Systems Engineering

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Civil engineering activity related to planning and operation of transportation system, involves transportation planning, including the analysis of system capacity; design of traffic control and operation strategies

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Objective: Knit together the inhabitants of a territory\nConstraints: human environment

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Transportation System Objective and Constraints

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Multi–modal

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Two or more modes are combined to provide utility and service to the public

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Exotic

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Modes that are not yet being used commercially but which have been tested in a pilot project

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Quasi–Transport

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Facsimile transmission of documents by wire and radio

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Highways\nUrban transit\nAir\nRail\nWater\nPipelines\nOther modes

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Modes of transportation

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System

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Set of interrelated parts which perform a number of function in order to achieve common goal

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Components

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Parts of a system

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System Analysis

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The application of the scientific method to the solution of complex problems.

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Goals

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Desired end states

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Objectives

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Operational statements of goals

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MOE

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Measures of Effectiveness

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MOE

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Measurement of the degree to which each alternative action satisfies the objective

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Measures of Costs

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Measures of benefits forgone or the opportunities lost for each of the alternatives

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Standard

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Fixed objective

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Policy

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Guiding principle or course of action adopted to forward progress toward an objective

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Transportation Planner and Engineer

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Recognize the fact that transportation system constitute a potent force in shaping the course of regional development

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Complementary\nTransferability\nCompetition

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Three conditions for movement and transportation

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Trip

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An event

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Travel

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Process

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Land use

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One of the prime determinant of movement and activity

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Trip generation

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Activity that will dictate what transportation facilities such as streets and bus systems will be needed to move traffic

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Mobility\nUse of resources\nRisk\nOther socio–economic outputs

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Outputs of the operating system

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Links\nVehicle\nTerminals\nManagement and labor

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Four basic elements of transportation system

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Locomotion\nActivities\nFeelings\nManipulation\nHealth and safety\nSocial interaction\nMotivation\nLearning\nPerception

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Categories of human behavior affected by transportation

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Spatial organization\nCirculation and movement\nCommunication\nAmbience\nVisual properties\nResources\nSymbolic properties\nArchitectonic properties\nConsequation\nProtection\nTiming

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Properties of physical environment that have direct impact on human behavior

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Ubiquity\nMobility\nEfficiency

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Three basic attributes of transportation system

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Ubiquity

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Amount of accessibility to the system, directness of routing between access points, and the system's flexibility to handle variety of traffic conditions

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Mobility

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The quantity of travel that can be handled. The capacity of the system to handle traffic and speed are two variables connected with mobility

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Efficiency

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Relationship between the cost of transportation and productivity of system. Direct costs of a system are composed of a capital and operating cost, while indirect costs comprise adverse impacts and unquantifiable costs, such as safety.