Practical Questions Transportation
By EM-T
1. The basis for design of transportation’s system operating strategies, traffic control
systems, and certain physical features of transportation systems.
Answer: Analysis of Traffic Flow
2. What is the second major issue in the analysis of traffic system?
Answer: The Analysis of travel times and delays
3. The analysis of delay normally focuses on delay which results when demand for a facility
exceeds its capacity, such delay is known as:
Answer: Queuing Delay
4. Queuing theory involves the analysis of what is known as queuing system which is
composed of the following.
Answer:
A. Serves
B. Stream of customers, who demand service
C. Queue or line of customers waiting to be served.
5. The amount of space occupied by each customer in the queue is known as:
Answer: Density of the Queue
6. What are the features of interest for stochastic queuing systems?
Answer:
A. Average queue length
B. Average waiting time
C. Average total delay time spent in the system.
7. This system provides for the safe and orderly movement of traffic, to resolve conflicts
between vehicles, vessels, or aircraft and to the extent possible to minimize the cost of
transportation is known as.
Answer: Traffic Control System
8. The signals operate by assigning the right of way successively to intersection
approaches. The red, yellow or green light that is displayed in a given movement is
called.
Answer: Indication
9. The time required for one complete sequence of signal indications is called.
Answer: Cycled
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Practical Questions Transportation
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10. The discrete portion of a cycle during which indications do not change is called
Answer: Internal
11. The portion of the cycle during which the movements with the right of way do not change
is called.
Answer: Phased
12. What are the basic types of traffic signals?
Answer: Fixed – time (or pre-timed) and traffic actuated
13. Traffic - actuated signals consists of detection devices and a controller which is set to
change the signals in some specified fashion in response to actuations. What are the
different type’s detection devices?
Answer: Impulse detector and presence detector
14. What are the classification of ramp metering?
Answer: Platoon – breakup, demand – capacity or gap acceptance metering
15. A traffic system whose purpose is to prevent conflicts between aircraft, but it also routes
are craft around adverse weather, manages to traffic to reduce congestion at key
airports, and aids pilots in the precise navigation required an approaches to runways is
known as.
Answer: Air traffic control systems
16. A system which include traffic signal systems controlling highway and street
intersections, freeway control system, air traffic control system and aircraft control
system is called.
Answer: Traffic control system
17. A dynamic process that involves constant reexamination of the details of route location,
stop location, and route schedules is knows as
Answer: Route planning for bus systems
18. What are the basis for vehicle and labor schedules?
Answer: Route schedules
19. The process of determining labor schedules is called.
Answer: Run cutting
20. The run cutting and bidding process take place periodically. The process of restructuring
runs is known as
Answer: Shakeup
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Practical Questions Transportation
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21. Driver works as straight shifts if they involve straight ruins in which all pieces of work are
continuous and split shift if they are not. The elapsed time from the beginning of the work
is known as
Answer: Spread
22. The max elapsed time within which work will be paid at straight time wages provided the
number of car hours (that is hours actually work) does not exceeds the normal workday
is known as
Answer: Straight time spread
23. They are intended to predict the number of travelers using various routes and hence, the
traffic on the link of a transportation network is known as
Answer: Trip assignment models
24. In some cases, vehicular trips are estimated rather than person trips, in which case the
model is known as
Answer: Traffic assignment model
25. Disaggregate trip assignment models are known as
Answer: Route choice models
26. The time spent in decelerating and accelerating the vehicle and in opening and closing
the doors and the time spent loading and unloading passenger is called.
Answer: Stop times
27. The time spent in decelerating and accelerating the vehicle and in opening and closing
of the doors is known as
Answer: Clearance time
28. The time spent loading and unloading passengers is known as
Answer: Dwell time
29. Route schedule or timetables, given the times that successive buses pass points called.
Answer: Time points
30. Route schedule are most commonly contracted by maintaining approximately uniform
headways among successive vehicles during period of time known as.
Answer: Schedule Blocks
31. Vehicle and labor schedules must also be considered the need for moving vehicles from
the garage or yard to the ends of the routes and back at the beginning and end of the
day. Such movement of vehicles that are not in revenue service is referred to as
Answer: Deadheading
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Practical Questions Transportation
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32. What are the components currently deployed by the freeway control system?
Answer:
A. ramp metering
B. variable – message signs
C. incident detection and response system
D. radio communications system
33. The best established form of freeway traffic control which usually include minimization of
delay and congestion, improved safety and smoother traffic flow is known as
Answer: Ramp metering
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