WorksheetsBENCHMARKING
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
Benchmarking is centred on comparing the relative efficiency of modes, modal combinations and modal interfaces
True
False
The common practice of overall benchmarking is to search for industry or functional activities or outputs that can be classified as best in class, as world-class, or as representing best practice.
True
False
Which are the requirement for performance measurement:
Transit Time
Logistics Cost
Risk
Reliability
Policy makers, infrastructure and facility operators, shippers and transport operators are involved in benchmarking
True
False
Which item in travel time of major measures of performance are true?
In vehicle travel time
Transfer time
Access time/accessibility
Waiting time
Which item in Monetary Cost of major measures of performance are true?
In vehicle travel time
Transfer time
Out of pocket cost
Waiting time
Besides its impact on perceived time by travellers, the safety factor may have other impacts on the user’s decision making before planning the travel
True
False
Which one is true?
User perspectives: travel cost, safety
User perspectives: maintain the balance of its income and expense during the operation
User perspectives: concern can be considered as independent, and their relative weight in the final decision largely depends on the current need and the policy maker’s final call.
User perspectives: includes travel cost, safety, reliability, travel flexibility and etc
Which one is true?
Supplier’s perspective : travel cost, safety
Supplier’s perspective : maintain the balance of its income and expense during the operation
Supplier’s perspective : concern can be considered as independent, and their relative weight in the final decision largely depends on the current need and the policy maker’s final call.
Supplier’s perspective : includes travel cost, safety, reliability, travel flexibility and etc
Which one is true?
Logistics costs: Transport, warehousing, and transhipment.
Logistics costs : influences inventory carrying costs and inventory cycle time, is supply-chain management
Transit time: Transport
Transit time: transhipment.
Which one is true?
Logistics costs: Transport, warehousing
Logistics costs : influences inventory carrying costs and inventory cycle time, is supply-chain management
Transit time: Transport
Transit time:It strongly influences inventory carrying costs and inventory cycle time, is supply-chain management.
Form consumers’ perspective (better services at lower prices
True
False
Shippers’ and logistics service providers’ perspective better services at lower cost
True
False
Government perspective balance between efficiency and environmental friendliness of logistics, improvement in transport safety
True
False
The coordination in scheduling requires long-term cooperation and agreement between modes, and hence more easily implemented when the same company owns the both
True
False
Physical Integration. This refers to the degree of geographic, instrumental and structural involvement between stations, and may as well lies in the architectural design. Physical integration can also provide the sense of “inside the system”, however, not on an easily quantifiable base.
True
False
Flexibility has similar properties as accessibility, which is also an alternative specific “weakest link” factor.
True
False
The agencies do not rely on the government’s subsidy.
True
False
Disaggregate factors are:
reliability
safety
time
money
Aggregate factors are:
reliability
safety
time
money
