LSCM 4560 TEST 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
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
ANSWERS
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
