LSCM 4560 DR. POHLEN UNT TEST 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

LSCM 4560 DR. POHLEN UNT TEST 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 The purpose of a national transportation policy is to: - Answers Administer the rates and practices of transportation carriers A national transportation policy includes several elements. Some of these elements include: - Answers User charges, promotion of different modes, and regulation of rates and services What is the federal government's policy toward transportation? - Answers is composite of laws, rules, funding programs and regulatory agencies Which of the following organizations participate in establishing a national transportation policy? - Answers Regulatory agencies Industry associations Courts Congressional committees Transportation planners and policy makers use this tool when assessing potential transportation projects and for allocating resources between competing transportation requirements: - Answers Benefit/cost ratio Government promotion of transportation can best be characterized as: - Answers Assisting transportation so it can grow and survive. Amtrak was created to: - Answers relieve the railroads of the burden non profitable passenger business Each mode of transportation has been promoted differently. Which mode has received extensive indirect promotion in terms of the total dollars spent on infrastructure but has not been directly funded, owned, or subsidized by the US government? - Answers Trucking This transportation mode has not received any public promotion in the form of infrastructure or financial support: - Answers Pipeline Domestic water carriers have received two major forms of federal promotion. They are: - Answers the work done by the Corp of Engineers and the Coast Guard Air carriers are promoted through - Answers subsidies air mail the FAA and air traffic control home flag During a discussion at a local logistics event, you overhear a discussion between two executives whose companies transport goods between US ports and use US carriers. They are discussing US cabotage laws. The individuals see that you are a logistics student at UNT and ask that you enter their discussion. They ask you why cabotage laws are important. Which hof the following would be an appropriate response? - Answers Cabotage laws are necessary to promote US carriers and protect them from international competition. During the Intermodal era, Congress and the ICC recognized that transportation competition could take three different forms. The forms of competition included: - Answers Intramodal, intermodal, and private versus for-hire The United States applies a fuel tax to fund the Federal Highway Trust Fund. This tax is considered to be what type of user fee? - Answers Unit charge Your responses to questions during a lively table discussion at the local CSCMP roundtable meeting have also attracted the attention of students from other local universities. One student holds up a drivers license and asks whether it represents a means for the government to recover part of the cost of providing transportation services. You're feeling rather quick on your feet and retort: - Answers You should consider taking classes at UNT. The drivers license is a user charge typically referred to as an existence charge. User charges for transportation may take several forms. A user charge that requires trucks carrying large heavy loads to pay more than light-weight passenger vehicles would be included in which of the following forms of user charges? - Answers Relative use This form of public promotion represents an extreme where the government assumes ownership, financing, and operation of a business entity. - Answers Nationalization Since economic deregulation of the modes, safety regulations: - Answers have received greater attention This organization reports to the Department of Homeland Security and can stop vessels from entering US ports, board vessels, and prevent the off-loading of undesirable freight from a vessel. - Answers US Coast Guard The United States experienced 37,244 transportation-related fatalities in 2010. Based on information in the text, the trend in transportation-related fatalities reflects: - Answers a decreasing number of passenger-related fatalities due to safer equipment, better designed highways, and increased seat belt use The independent regulatory commission is an administrative body created by legislative authority. The first application was in transportation. This first independent regulatory body was the: - Answers Interstate Commerce Commission The role of courts in transportation regulation has involved all of the following except - Answers Rates-setting and enforcing rates published in common carrier tariffs This form of law is based on the Roman legal system: - Answers Statutory law This Act deregulated the railroads: - Answers Staggers Act During this era, Congress and the ICC recognized that competition could take three different forms: intramodal, intermodal, and private versus for hire. - Answers Intermodal era Which of the following independent regulatory commission currently has the responsibility for the economic regulation of interstate shipments of petroleum products by railroads? - Answers Surface Transportation Board (STB) This independent regulatory commission replaced the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1995: - Answers Surface Transportation Board During this era of transportation regulation, the federal government passed several major legislative acts targeting monopolistic business practices. In addition, the legislation passed during this era strengthened the role of the Interstate Commerce Commission. - Answers Initiation era This form of anti-trust violation is illegal by performing the act--competitors do not need to demonstrate economic harm: - Answers Per se violation This era of transportation regulation was marked by several Supreme Court decisions that affirmed the ability of government to regulate transportation and that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce [transportation]. - Answers Promotional era As transportation regulation evolved over time, three "pillars" or major themes emerged. The major themes or areas addressed in regulatory legislation included: - Answers Control of rates, entry, and competition Governments have frequently intervened in the transportation marketplace. This intervention is based on: - Answers Rationale that only the government is in the position to overcome marketplace imperfections, substitute regulation for competition, or to assume ownership in the best interests of society Many historians credit this President for beginning the movement to deregulate the transportation industry. - Answers John F. Kennedy What has been the foundation for federal regulation of transportation? - Answers Judicial decision that only the federal government can regulate interstate carriers In the United States, two mechanisms are used for allocating transportation resources. The government decision to fund the interstate highway system would be an example of which of the following? - Answers Political