URBS 310 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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URBS 310 Final Exam Questions With
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Including all registered automobiles and light trucks there are approximately ____ registered
vehicles for every _____ person in the U.S. as of 2008. - answer3, 4
Intercity rail transportation - answeris supported by planners because it makes m...
URBS 310 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Including all registered automobiles and light trucks there are approximately ____ registered
vehicles for every _____ person in the U.S. as of 2008. - answer✔3, 4
Intercity rail transportation - answer✔is supported by planners because it makes more dense and
central locations valuable
There are approximately ____ registered automobiles for every ____ person in the U.S. as of
2008. ** - answer✔1, 2
The following are part of the Four-Step transportation planning process EXCEPT** -
answer✔Determining the shortest fastest route that all users will take between an origination and
destination
Four- Step transportation Process - answer✔1.
2.
3.
4.
The federal law that first prevented federal funding for non-attainment areas that did not create
plans to address automobile emissions was - answer✔Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act
The average speed of buses in the United States is - answer✔12.5 mph
All of the following are reasons that 78% of expenditures on public transportation are subsidized
EXCEPT - answer✔to provide an efficient form of income redistribution
Reasons that 78% of expenditures on public transportation are subsidized - answer✔1. to provide
access for those who cannot drive
2. to reduce automobile congestion in the city
3. to promote a more environmentally friendly compact city form
12. An incident exemplifying the freeway revolt is citizens trying to stop - answer✔the Westway
in New York City
13. HOT lanes - answer✔charge different rates at different times of the day
Central cities that have had long term economic success have - answer✔a highly educated
workforce
Tax increment financing is an economic growth strategy related to - answer✔special small area
finance arrangements
Since about the year 2000, economic development agencies have shifted focus to all of the
following industries EXCEPT - answer✔manufacturers
A city's planners and economic developers** - answer✔frequenty agree, but sometimes disagree
as the economic developers are more likely to push for companies and locations that are not in-
line with the general plan
A good reason a rural county may want to attract a state prison is - answer✔source of many jobs
Cities compete for economic development for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: -
answer✔to create a larger planning department
The federally-funded economic development program for lagging area that still exists is -
answer✔the Economic Development Administration
All of the following items a state may try to get the federal government to do for its economic
development EXCEPT - answer✔adopt a national "right-to-work" law
One of the better strategies used to encourage new start-up companies is - answer✔incubator
buildings
A systematic approach to economic development has the following four phases in the following
order - answer✔needs assessment, market evaluation, assessment of consequences of economic
development program, plan formulation
In ______, developers must build the infrastructure in the urban growth area before developing
the parcel.** - answer✔Fort Collins
This state is known for implementing growth management by using Urban Growth Boundaries -
answer✔Oregon
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