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16-Civ-A6 Highway Design, Construction, and Maintenance: May 2016

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  1. Question 1 Land Use, Travel Demand Management and Trip Generation
  2. Question 2 Deterministic Queueing at a Signalised Approach
  3. Question 3 Trip Generation by Cross-Classification and by Regression
  4. Question 4 Greenshields' Model and Shock Waves at a Railway Grade Crossing
  5. Question 5 Singly Constrained Gravity Model for Two Zones
  6. Question 6 User-Equilibrium Assignment and the 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 May 2016. Seven questions, all 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) — queueing, shock waves and traffic-stream models; Papacostas & Prevedouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning (Prentice Hall) — the four-step demand model; Ortuzar & Willumsen, Modelling Transport (Wiley) — trip generation, distribution, mode choice and assignment; Roess, Prassas & McShane, Traffic Engineering (Pearson) — signalised-intersection delay.