TIM 350 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
TDM - Answers Use of priority techniques for high occupancy vehicles, parking regulation,
efforts to shift when travel occurs, promotion of telecommuting, transit service improvements,
use of pricing techniques
TDM Data Required (8) - Answers -Traffic data
-Transit ridership statistics
-Census information
-Interviews of households and their travel patterns
-Land use
-Development trends
-Environmental factors
-Financial resources
4 Stem Modeling Process - Answers -Trip Production
-Trip Attraction
-Mode Split
-Route Assignment
Trip Production (4) - Answers -Land use, economic and population forecast
-By trip purpose
-Number of people in Household
-Number of Vehicles in Household
Limitations to Trip Production - Answers -Independent decisions per traveler
-Limited trip purposes
-Combinations of trips are ignored
-Feedback, cause & effect
Trip Attraction - Answers - O-D pattern
-Gravity model (attractions and distance)
, - depends on number of attractions and number of jobs in that zone
Limitations to Trip Attraction - Answers -Constant trip times
-Use of automobile travel times to represent distance traveled
-Limited effects on social-economic-culture factors
-Feedback problems
Modal Split - Answers -Attractiveness of Modes
-Auto
-Bike/walk
-Transit
-Disutility (gen. cost)
(*find attractiveness of each of the modes*)
Limitations to Modal Split - Answers -Choice only one affected by time and cost characteristics
-Omitted factors
-Access times are simplified
-Time and cost can be added
-Constant weighs
Route assignment - Answers -Time consuming/data intensive
-Shortest path
-Volume to capacity comparison
-Network equilibrium
-Time of day analysis
Volume to Capacity (v/c) - Answers > 1.0 = Severe Congestion
.75 to 1.0 = Heavy Congestion
.5 to .74 = Moderate Congestion
< .5 = Low or no Congestion
TDM - Answers Use of priority techniques for high occupancy vehicles, parking regulation,
efforts to shift when travel occurs, promotion of telecommuting, transit service improvements,
use of pricing techniques
TDM Data Required (8) - Answers -Traffic data
-Transit ridership statistics
-Census information
-Interviews of households and their travel patterns
-Land use
-Development trends
-Environmental factors
-Financial resources
4 Stem Modeling Process - Answers -Trip Production
-Trip Attraction
-Mode Split
-Route Assignment
Trip Production (4) - Answers -Land use, economic and population forecast
-By trip purpose
-Number of people in Household
-Number of Vehicles in Household
Limitations to Trip Production - Answers -Independent decisions per traveler
-Limited trip purposes
-Combinations of trips are ignored
-Feedback, cause & effect
Trip Attraction - Answers - O-D pattern
-Gravity model (attractions and distance)
, - depends on number of attractions and number of jobs in that zone
Limitations to Trip Attraction - Answers -Constant trip times
-Use of automobile travel times to represent distance traveled
-Limited effects on social-economic-culture factors
-Feedback problems
Modal Split - Answers -Attractiveness of Modes
-Auto
-Bike/walk
-Transit
-Disutility (gen. cost)
(*find attractiveness of each of the modes*)
Limitations to Modal Split - Answers -Choice only one affected by time and cost characteristics
-Omitted factors
-Access times are simplified
-Time and cost can be added
-Constant weighs
Route assignment - Answers -Time consuming/data intensive
-Shortest path
-Volume to capacity comparison
-Network equilibrium
-Time of day analysis
Volume to Capacity (v/c) - Answers > 1.0 = Severe Congestion
.75 to 1.0 = Heavy Congestion
.5 to .74 = Moderate Congestion
< .5 = Low or no Congestion
