CSU CIVE303 Infrastructure and
Transportation final questions well
answered 2025/2026
6 Critical Categories of Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔Built environment, transportation,
communications, water, solid waste, and energy
Critical Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔includes systems, facilities, and assets so vital that if
destroyed or incapacitated would disrupt the security, economy, health, safety, or welfare of the
public.
Safety - correct answer ✔✔denotes a status, which is extensively free of adverse effects or is
regarded as non-dangerous.
Security - correct answer ✔✔provides protection against attacks, sabotage, acts of violence, or
disruption used to reach safety status and effective when they prevent disasters
Resilience - correct answer ✔✔the capability to prevent or protect against significant
multihazard threats and incidents and to expeditiously recover and reconstitute critical services
with minimum damage to public safety and health, the economy, and national security.
Natural Disasters - correct answer ✔✔Flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami,
volcano, landslides, wildfire, drought, tropical storms, and climate change.
Characteristics of Transportation Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔dot-bridges, moving points-
vehicles, lines-roadways, and umbrella-natural environment
, Major Challenges of US Transportation - correct answer ✔✔Safety, sustainability, environmental
impacts, congestion mitigation, and deteriorating infrastructure.
Highway Trend Shift - correct answer ✔✔Construction in the mid 20th century to infrastructure
maintenance and rehabilitation, improvements in operational efficiency, various traffic-
congestion relief measures, energy conservation, improved safety, and environmental
mitigation.
Elements of Highway Transportation - correct answer ✔✔economy, energy, the environment,
and climate change.
Contents of the Design of a Road - correct answer ✔✔Passenger transportation modes and
traffic congestion, Highway safety, Demographic trends, and Technology
Design Guide - correct answer ✔✔Road vehicle performance forms the basis for highway design
guidelines and traffic analysis
Why is vehicle performance important? - correct answer ✔✔Determines all highway design and
traffic operations,
Defines how transportation engineers must react to advancing vehicle technologies
The single most important factor in defining the tradeoff between mobility (speed) and safety
Major Forces on the vehicle - correct answer ✔✔aerodynamic, rolling resistance, and grade
resistance
Conservative Reaction time - correct answer ✔✔2.5 sec
Average Reaction time - correct answer ✔✔1.0-1.5 sec
Transportation final questions well
answered 2025/2026
6 Critical Categories of Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔Built environment, transportation,
communications, water, solid waste, and energy
Critical Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔includes systems, facilities, and assets so vital that if
destroyed or incapacitated would disrupt the security, economy, health, safety, or welfare of the
public.
Safety - correct answer ✔✔denotes a status, which is extensively free of adverse effects or is
regarded as non-dangerous.
Security - correct answer ✔✔provides protection against attacks, sabotage, acts of violence, or
disruption used to reach safety status and effective when they prevent disasters
Resilience - correct answer ✔✔the capability to prevent or protect against significant
multihazard threats and incidents and to expeditiously recover and reconstitute critical services
with minimum damage to public safety and health, the economy, and national security.
Natural Disasters - correct answer ✔✔Flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami,
volcano, landslides, wildfire, drought, tropical storms, and climate change.
Characteristics of Transportation Infrastructure - correct answer ✔✔dot-bridges, moving points-
vehicles, lines-roadways, and umbrella-natural environment
, Major Challenges of US Transportation - correct answer ✔✔Safety, sustainability, environmental
impacts, congestion mitigation, and deteriorating infrastructure.
Highway Trend Shift - correct answer ✔✔Construction in the mid 20th century to infrastructure
maintenance and rehabilitation, improvements in operational efficiency, various traffic-
congestion relief measures, energy conservation, improved safety, and environmental
mitigation.
Elements of Highway Transportation - correct answer ✔✔economy, energy, the environment,
and climate change.
Contents of the Design of a Road - correct answer ✔✔Passenger transportation modes and
traffic congestion, Highway safety, Demographic trends, and Technology
Design Guide - correct answer ✔✔Road vehicle performance forms the basis for highway design
guidelines and traffic analysis
Why is vehicle performance important? - correct answer ✔✔Determines all highway design and
traffic operations,
Defines how transportation engineers must react to advancing vehicle technologies
The single most important factor in defining the tradeoff between mobility (speed) and safety
Major Forces on the vehicle - correct answer ✔✔aerodynamic, rolling resistance, and grade
resistance
Conservative Reaction time - correct answer ✔✔2.5 sec
Average Reaction time - correct answer ✔✔1.0-1.5 sec
