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BE - SEMESTER– VII (NEW) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2021
Subject Code:2174006 Date:03/12/2021
Subject Name:Advanced Transportation Engineering
Time:02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.
MARKS

Q.1 (a) Define ‘Urban Area’ as per Census of India. State the reasons of urbanization. 03
(b) Discuss with flow chart, various steps involved in Transportation Planning 04
process.
(c) From the data given in following table, develop three trip generation equations. 07
Show which of the three models is more reliable and why?

No. of persons in house hold Vehicle ownership Trips per day

3 2 8
4 2 8
3 1 4
2 1 2
5 2 10
6 3 12
7 1 16
9 2 14
10 3 16
1 1 4
4 1 6
7 2 14
Q.2 (a) What is the significance of urban mass transit systems? State different urban 03
mass transit systems with their capacities in PPHPD.
(b) Discuss significance of coordination in transportation, its factors and types. 04
Also, discuss about their advantages and limitations.
(c) A study area has been divided in four zones 1, 2, 3, 4. the present trip 07
distribution matrix is given with future total trip productions and trip
attractions. Develop the future trip distribution matrix using: Average growth
factor method.
Do iteration process up to 2 stages.
1 2 3 4 Total Total future
present production
production
1 100 150 160 130 540 870
2 140 180 170 120 610 780
3 120 160 130 140 550 800
4 150 170 130 140 590 810
Total 510 660 590 530 2290 -
present
attraction

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 Total 810 880 740 830 - 3260
future
attraction

OR
(c) Solve above example of Q. 2 (c) by Detroit method. Do iteration process up to 07
2 stages.

Q.3 (a) What is ‘Land Use Planning’? Define: Basic employment, Service 03
employment.
(b) Explain with flow chart ‘Lowry’s Derivative Model’. 04
(c) Using a gravity model, with an impedance term of the form C-α, estimate the 07
number of trips from zone– 3 to all other zones. Take α = 1.9
Zone Travel time to zone-3 (min) production Attractions
1 15 20000 10000
2 23 15000 30000
3 - 30000 18000
4 17 25000 10000
5 28 18000 40000
OR
Q.3 (a) Draw the format of questionnaire used for the ‘Home Interview Survey’. 03
(b) Briefly discuss about various factors affecting trip production and trip 04
attraction.
(c) Find the trip interchange for the given data using Intervening Opportunity 07
Model. Take zonal acceptability factor l = 0.0005

Zone 1 2 3 4
Trip Produced 1250 1750 1080 900
Trip attracted 2100 1600 2700 1250

The order of closeness

D 1 2 3 4
O
1 1 3 2 4
2 4 1 2 3
3 2 3 1 4
4 3 2 4 1
Q.4 (a) Briefly describe for mode choice analysis: Captive transit riders, RP survey, 03
Trip end type model.
(b) Discuss with sketch about Diversion curves for modal split. 04
(c) A market segment consists of 1000 individuals. A multinomial logit mode 07
choice model is calibrated for this market segment, resulting in the following
utility function.
u = βm – 0.42 C – 0.032 T
where, C = out of-pocket cost (Rs.) and T = travel time (min). Values of βm for
Bus transit: 0.00, Rail transit: 0.8 and Auto: 1.50. For a particular O-D pair, the
cost & travel time for these three modes are as follows.
Mode Travel Time (min) Cost (Rs.)

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 Bus 30 12.80
Rail 20 12.00
Auto 15 24.50
Predict the number of trips by each mode from this market segment.
OR
Q.4 (a) What do you understand by ‘Trip Assignment’? How it is useful? 03
(b) Briefly explain the Moore’s algorithm for finding shortest path. 04
(c) The total trip volumes from zone 1 to 2 are 4500. Find the volumes on each 07
route connecting two zones, using the particulars given in table below. Use
TRC trip assignment.

Route Length Speed (kmph)

No. (Km)
1 2.6 32
2 1.8 22
3 1.2 10
4 3.5 20
Q.5 (a) What is ‘Routing’ and ‘Scheduling’ in Urban Mass Transport System? 03
(b) Discuss briefly any four important attributes of transit system performance. 04
(c) The characteristics of two routes between two zones are given in table below. 07
The total number of trips between these two zones is 1800 trips/hour. Assign
the trips using iterative TRC trip assignment procedure.

Route No. Speed Length Critical Critical Ideal

No. of Limit (km) Volume travel travel
lanes (kmph) time time
(vph/lane) (min/km) with no
volume
(min/km)
1 One 50 5 800 3.5 2.4
2 One 80 8 1200 2.4 1.8
OR
Q.5 (a) Define: Load factor, Passenger capacity, Vehicle capacity. 03
(b) Suggest and justify the suitable mass transit systems for the different urban 04
forms.
(c) Explain the following terms with help of a sketch of study area and zones. 07
(i) Cordon line, (ii) Zones, (iii) Centroid of zone, (iv) Intra-zonal trip, (v) Inter-
zonal trip, (vi) Screen line, (vii) Desire line.

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