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16-Civ-B7 Transportation Planning and Engineering: May 2017

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  1. Question 1 Land Use, Mode Choice and Traveller Information
  2. Question 2 Deterministic Queueing at a Parking Lot
  3. Question 3 Trip Production — Cross-Classification and Regression
  4. Question 4 Greenshields Model and Shock Wave Analysis
  5. Question 5 Trip Distribution by the Gravity Model
  6. Question 6 Multinomial Logit Mode Choice
  7. Question 7 User-Equilibrium Traffic Assignment

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Paper format. National Examination, May 2017 — 16-Civ-B7 Transportation Planning & Engineering. Three hours; closed book with one two-sided aid sheet; seven questions of equal value (20 marks each), of which any five constitute a complete examination. All seven are solved here, because the set is a study resource rather than an exam script.

Reference texts. Garber & Hoel, Traffic and Highway Engineering, 5th ed. (queueing, shock waves, traffic flow theory); Papacostas & Prevedouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning, 3rd ed. (the four-step model); Ortuzar & Willumsen, Modelling Transport, 4th ed. (trip distribution, discrete choice, assignment); Ben-Akiva & Lerman, Discrete Choice Analysis (logit and the IIA property); Meyer & Miller, Urban Transportation Planning, 2nd ed. (land use interaction, travel demand management); Transportation Association of Canada, Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads. Canadian practice is assumed throughout: travel-demand work in Canada is done under provincial and regional model frameworks, and this paper is written in SI units.

Note on the paper. The 16-Civ-B7 paper examined here is Transportation Planning & Engineering: travel-demand forecasting, traffic flow theory, discrete choice and network assignment. No pavement, materials or geometric-design question appears.