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16-Civ-A6 Highway Design, Construction, and Maintenance: December 2015

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  1. Question 1 Land Use, Trip Purposes and Trip-Generation Models
  2. Question 2 Deterministic Queueing at a Freeway Bottleneck
  3. Question 3 Trip Generation — Cross-Classification vs Regression
  4. Question 4 Greenshields Model and Shock Waves
  5. Question 5 Gravity Model Trip Distribution
  6. Question 6 User-Equilibrium Traffic Assignment and Braess’ Paradox
  7. Question 7 Multinomial Logit Mode Choice and the IIA Property

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Paper format: 98-Civ-A6 Transportation Planning & Engineering, National Examination, December 2015. Seven questions, each of equal value (20 marks); any five constitute a complete examination. Closed book, one two-sided aid sheet permitted. Three hours. All seven questions are solved below as a study resource.

Reference texts. Mannering, Washburn & Kilareski, Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis (Wiley); Papacostas & Prevedouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning (Prentice Hall); Roess, Prassas & McShane, Traffic Engineering (Pearson); Ortúzar & Willumsen, Modelling Transport (Wiley) for the demand-model chapters (trip generation, distribution, mode choice, assignment).