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16-Civ-B7 Transportation Planning and Engineering: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Trip Generation Factors, Travel-Demand Management and Suburban Mode Choice
  2. Question 2 Deterministic Queueing at a Signalised Approach
  3. Question 3 Trip Production by Cross-Classification and by Regression
  4. Question 4 Greenshields Model and Shock Waves at a Railway Grade Crossing
  5. Question 5 Two-Zone Gravity Model of Trip Distribution
  6. Question 6 Wardrop User Equilibrium on Parallel Routes
  7. Question 7 Multinomial Logit Mode Choice and the IIA Property

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Paper format. National Examination, May 2018 — 16-Civ-B7, Transportation Planning and Engineering. Three hours, closed book (one two-sided aid sheet permitted; Casio or Sharp approved calculator). Seven questions of 20 marks each; any five constitute a complete examination, and only the first five as they appear in the answer book are marked. The per-sub-question mark split is printed on page 7 and is reproduced beside each part below. All seven questions are solved here, because the complete set is the more useful study resource.

Reference texts for this subject.

  • Papacostas, C. S. and Prevedouros, P. D., Transportation Engineering and Planning, 3rd ed. — the four-step model, trip generation, deterministic queueing, traffic-flow theory.
  • Ortúzar, J. de D. and Willumsen, L. G., Modelling Transport, 4th ed. — trip distribution, the gravity model, discrete choice, equilibrium assignment.
  • Meyer, M. D. and Miller, E. J., Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, 2nd ed. — land use and transport, travel-demand management.
  • Garber, N. J. and Hoel, L. A., Traffic and Highway Engineering, 5th ed. — shock waves, signalised-intersection delay.
  • Transportation Research Board, Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), 6th ed. — capacity, control delay and level of service.
  • Transportation Association of Canada, Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads — the Canadian design frame for the network context of these questions.