Transport Oriented Problems

Dr. M. ADNAN

Transportation Oriented Problems

(Course Revision)
Aspects

on which you can differentiate type

of tests conducted for hypothesis

Confidence

Interval
Z-statistics & T-statistics
Chi-square statistics
ANOVA tests or F-statistics
Regression

Problem 1:

Travel time required to travel a particular link in the

road network is required to determine. A usual
factors to determine this are the time required to
travel on the link when link is in free flow condition
and volume of the traffic traveling on the link. Raw
data is provided with travel time measurements, find
out the linear expression that best fitted the data.

Hint: Try various things to increase R-square, tstatistics of co-efficient.

Problem 2:

A certain TDM policy result in the following distribution of

transport mode used in a particular city for commuter trips. Test
the claim of the transport authority that the TDM policy is
effective in reducing motorized transport modes and hence
reduce congestion in the city. City generates an overall 12000
trips per day

Mode
Non-motorised
Transit
Motorised

Before
5%
10%
85%

(Think which test is best suited here)

After
20%
28%
52%

Problem 3:

Make a random sample (constituting countries) from

the data shown and illustrate whether Fuel prices,
Transport Energy use and Annual vehicle travel
explain road fatalities.

Make a stratified sample in a manner of developed

and less developed countries and test the hypothesis
that less developed countries are always have higher
chances of road fatalities.

Problem 4:

Test the following hypotheses based on the data

shown in earlier slide.

In category three, mode share for all transport mode is

equal.
Share of Auto Rickshaw is equal for all categories of cities
within India
Share of Walking is equal for all categories of cities within
India
City categories within India are not related with the types of
modes used for daily travel