Land Use & Transportation Planning Quizzes

Posted on Apr 15, 2025 in Geology

Quiz 9

Accessibility Indicators and Transportation

1. What are the Accessibility Indicators? Circle all applicable options.

  • a, b, c, d

2. List four transportation facilities.

  • Sidewalks
  • Parking lots
  • Transit stops
  • Roads

3. List four Urban Land use infrastructure facilities.

  • Transportation
  • Water & sewer
  • Recreation & education
  • Health & safety

4. Specific to sewer and water services, what kind of physical attributes are considered in land use planning?

  • Sewer service relies mostly on gravity flows.
  • Water service is dependent on elevation pressures.

5. Explain how land use and transportation planning have been working separately?

Communities prefer pedestrian-friendly, higher-than-average-density downtown areas with narrow streets. Transportation planners prefer otherwise because it decreases the level of service for the roads.

6. What is the objective of transportation planning?

Easing the ability to reach destinations.

7. What are accessibility and mobility? Explain.

  • Mobility: Connotes movement, fluidity.
  • Accessibility: The ease of getting to a destination.

8. What are the two land use solutions that land planners can apply to increase an area’s accessibility?

  • Bringing origin and destination closer to each other.
  • Encourage the consideration of multiple transportation modes.

9. Traditional transportation indicators tend to be accessibility oriented.

False

Quiz 10

Land Use, Ecology, and Environmental Analysis

1. By mixing land uses, distance drops dramatically and the use of non-motorized modes increases.

True

3. What are the ecological features of the environment? Circle one.

d. Topography and slopes, Soils, Wetlands, Wildlife habitats

4. Topographic maps are produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and portray both natural and human settlement features.

True

5. The USGS maps at the scale of 1:24,000 show less detail than the maps at 1:100,000 scale.

False

6. Building structures on unstable slopes and disturbance of stable slopes are two appropriate land use development practices.

False

7. The most applicable features for making decisions about soil suitability are:

  • a. Weight-bearing capacity, Shrink/swell
  • b. Infiltration capacity, Erodibility
  • d. Fertility

8. List two of the key features that identify a wetland.

  • Presence of surface water
  • Saturated soil
  • Vegetation

9. Biodiversity is generated and maintained in ever-changing patterns over time by the climatic, geological, and hydrological processes.

True

10. Landscape fragmentation is a major threat to biodiversity that decreases the amount of natural habitat in a landscape. This fragmentation apportions the remaining habitat into larger isolated pieces.

False

11. What are the three types of values that support keeping future options open by preserving biodiversity?

  • Composition
  • Structure
  • Function

12. The effectiveness of land use planning depends on environmental analysis techniques. What are the three (3) types of analysis used in planning?

  • Composite land suitability
  • Environmental impact
  • Carrying capacity

13. List two methods used for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

  • Determine protected change
  • Estimate how plans affect the environment

14. Carrying Capacity Analysis integrates environmental factors in land use planning, accounts for the limits of the amount of growth that can be supported by the environment, and determines the maximum level of development that can be accommodated while meeting community-based goals for environmental quality. What are the two factors that require this kind of analysis?

  • Limiting factor
  • Changing factor