Transport Decisions: Factors in Selecting Modes of Transportation
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What is the primary goal of traffic management?

  • To maximize profits for transportation companies
  • To enable and secure the disturbance-free and environmentally safe fulfillment of the transport demand at lowest costs (correct)
  • To reduce environmental impact of transportation
  • To minimize the number of traffic accidents
  • What are the main topics of traffic technique according to the text?

  • Traffic control and traffic safety
  • Both (a) and (b) (correct)
  • Freight rate, reliability, and transit time
  • Development, planning, construction and realization of traffic routes, traffic networks and public transport systems
  • What is the relationship between traffic management and traffic politics according to the text?

  • They are completely separate and unrelated
  • Traffic management is a subset of traffic politics
  • Traffic politics plans and initiates the building of new traffic networks, while traffic management cares for safe, fast and efficient traffic flows through existing networks (correct)
  • Traffic politics is a subset of traffic management
  • What is the main focus of traffic scientists?

    <p>Investigating the traffic flows of goods, persons and transport means between anonymous sources and sinks</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a responsibility of traffic management in the text?

    <p>Maximizing profits for transportation companies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between traffic management and logistics according to the text?

    <p>Traffic management is a sub-field of logistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of traffic economy?

    <p>Safe and economic utilization of traffic networks and public transport</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT one of the tasks of logistic research mentioned in the text?

    <p>Implementing strategies to increase transport demand and traffic volume</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is required for a fair solution to the tasks of logistic research?

    <p>Independency of logistic research from particular interests</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT one of the fundamental responsibilities of traffic managers mentioned in the text?

    <p>Route planning and optimization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary responsibility of a traffic department according to the text?

    <p>Overseeing day-to-day shipping operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following activities is NOT listed as a fundamental responsibility of traffic managers?

    <p>Marketing and sales</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a primary concern of traffic economics?

    <p>Studying the structure and operation of traffic networks and transport systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the goal conflicts between transport and traffic discussed in the text?

    <p>Transport companies prioritize individual goals over societal goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a prerequisite for efficient transport between economic actors, according to the text?

    <p>Safe traffic networks and public transport systems with sufficient capacities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a prerequisite for investments in traffic networks and public transport systems?

    <p>Adequate traffic flows and sufficient user frequencies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a topic studied by traffic economists, according to the text?

    <p>Environmental impact assessments of transport systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between transport and traffic, as described in the text?

    <p>Transport and traffic are interdependent, with each influencing the other</p> Signup and view all the answers

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