TRANSPO QUIZ 1

Enumerate the three classification of transportation studies.

Includes walking, automobile, bus, train, ferry-boat, ship, aircraft and helicopter. These modes use either the road, rail tracks, waterways and airways.

• Modal Classification

• Elemental Classification

• Functional Classification

Enumerate 4 Classes under Modal Classification

A slightly different way of classifying the transportation systems according to modes would be to define classes as groups of modes which use a particular “surface”.

• True

• False

In this mode of transport, all vehicles use the roadways to travel from one point to another. Some are private vehicles while others are meant to move either a large number of people or goods over long and short distances.

• Automobiles

• Trucks

• Bus

• Bicycles

• Motorcycles

• Roadways

• Railways

• Waterways

• Airways

Enumerate the 4 Types of Roadways

The higher the allowable speed to travel, the lower the ______

The lower the allowable ______ to travel, the higher the accessibility.

All vehicles use rail tracks to move from one point to another. Vehicles of this class is consist of a long train of coaches that is attached to a locomotive.

• The locomotive either uses coal, diesel, or electricity as fuel.

• There are generally two types of trains, long-distance trains and urban trains.

• Roadways

• Railways

• Waterways

• Airways

Since the ________ provide a dedicated right of-way, for the train services, these are good for high speed mass transit facilities.

• roads

• rail tracks

• highway