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CA Inter Units of Measurement in Transportation — practice questions

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What does one passenger-kilometre (pkm) represent?Read the answer and worked solution →Passenger-distance multiplies unlinked passenger trips by what?Read the answer and worked solution →A bus makes one trip with 40 passengers, each riding 25 km. How many passenger-kilometres is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Freight transport is measured in which kind of unit?Read the answer and worked solution →A tonne-kilometre is the transport of how much over one kilometre?Read the answer and worked solution →How many kilogram-kilometres equal one tonne-kilometre?Read the answer and worked solution →A truck hauls 12 tonnes of cargo over 150 km. How many tonne-kilometres of service is that?Read the answer and worked solution →A freight firm incurs Rs 36,000 to deliver 1,800 tonne-kilometres. What is its cost per tonne-kilometre?Read the answer and worked solution →A vehicle-kilometre measure multiplies the number of vehicles by what?Read the answer and worked solution →A tonne is a metric unit defined as how many kilograms?Read the answer and worked solution →Intermodal container traffic is usually measured in which unit?Read the answer and worked solution →Passengers per hour per direction (pphpd) measures what about a transport system?Read the answer and worked solution →Using 1 mi = 1.609344 km, about how many km is a 10-mile journey?Read the answer and worked solution →A freight measure such as the tonne-kilometre is the product of payload mass and what?Read the answer and worked solution →A truck carrying 14 short tons travels 2,015 miles. How many ton-miles of freight is delivered?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can a system have high passengers per km but low passengers per bus hour?Read the answer and worked solution →A dispersed community forces circuitous routes, which tend to do what to passengers per km?Read the answer and worked solution →Energy efficiency of a vehicle in transport can be expressed in which unit?Read the answer and worked solution →Fatalities by VMT is computed by dividing fatalities by what?Read the answer and worked solution →One short ton, used in the US, equals how many pounds?Read the answer and worked solution →Available seat miles are the number of seats available multiplied by what?Read the answer and worked solution →An aircraft with 300 seats for sale flies 1,000 statute miles. How many ASMs does it generate?Read the answer and worked solution →Seats dedicated to crew rest on a flight are treated how in the ASM count?Read the answer and worked solution →CASM is determined by dividing operating costs by what?Read the answer and worked solution →An airline has operating costs of $6 billion and 50 billion ASMs. What is its CASM?Read the answer and worked solution →All else equal, what does a lower CASM mean for an airline?Read the answer and worked solution →Other things equal, longer average stage length gives what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do analysts quote CASM excluding fuel to judge cost control?Read the answer and worked solution →Which measure is scheduled ticket revenue per available seat mile?Read the answer and worked solution →As average stage length increases, what typically happens to RASM?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What does one passenger-kilometre (pkm) represent?

  1. One seat offered for one mile
  2. One vehicle driven one kilometre
  3. One passenger carried one kilometre
  4. One tonne moved one kilometre
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Correct answer: C. One passenger carried one kilometre

A passenger-kilometre counts one passenger carried over a distance of one kilometre, so it measures passenger service output.

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Passenger-distance multiplies unlinked passenger trips by what?

  1. The capacity of each vehicle
  2. The average length of trips
  3. The fare charged per trip
  4. The number of vehicles run
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Correct answer: B. The average length of trips

Passenger-distance equals the number of unlinked trips times their average trip length, giving total distance travelled by passengers.

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A bus makes one trip with 40 passengers, each riding 25 km. How many passenger-kilometres is this?

  1. 65
  2. 1,000
  3. 100
  4. 640
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Correct answer: B. 1,000

Passenger-kilometres are passengers times distance, so 40 x 25 = 1,000 pkm.

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