Problem.#2 Imagine that you have just landed your first engineering job and have

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Problem.#2 Imagine that you have just landed your first engineering job and have relocated to Chicago, IL. You are trying to determine how you will commute to and from your place of employment in downtown. You have decided to live five miles outside of the city in order to reduce your housing costs. Pick five (5) available and practical transportation methods (e.g. train/subway, skateboard, ferry, walking, automobile) that you could use for commuting on a daily basls. Using a decision matrix, evaluate each transportation option based on five different criteria of your choosing (e.g. time, reliability, cost, susceptibility to traffic or weather). Using a 0 to 4 scale, with 4 being the best, calculate which transportation option will be most suitable for you. 1. (2.5 pts.) Identify five (5) transportation methods suitable for your commuting scenario. 2. (2.5 pts.) Identify five (5) reasonable evaluation criteria. 3. (5 pts.) Build your matrix, fil it in, and include it in your submission. The matrix can be developed by hand or using a table in software like Excel or Word. (5 pts.) Write a short paragraph explaining your choices and the result of your analysis. 4. Note: You may want to conduct some research on Chicago, including weather, traffic, and different transportation methods.

Explanation / Answer

1. 5 transportation methods suitable in Chicago are -

   a) Buses operated by Chicago transit Authority.It covers city of chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs.It operates 24 hrs a day and averge 1.6 million rides per day.It operates 152 routes and 2273 route miles

   b) Rapid transit cars - it operates 8 routes and 222 miles of track.

   c) CTA trains- It provides 745,000 customer trips/day and covers 144 stations around chicago.

   d) Passenger ferry service - It operates in defined routes on published schedule.

   e) Cycling - 290 mile network of bikeway including cycle track are provided all around chicago.It is operated in all roads except highways.

2. Evaluation criteria -

   a) Time of travel

   b) Cost of travel

   c) Reliability

   d) Traffic

   e) Weather

3) Decision matrix with scaling 0-4

4. The best choice is bus since it covers all the routes in chicago and 40 suburbs so its more reliable and it operates 1.6 million rides/day so time or frequency of travel is good.During bad weather also its good and cheap mode of transport.The bus is much cheaper compared to car or train.

Tranportation      Evaluation criteria Total Time Cost Reliability Traffic Weather Buses 3 3 4 3 3 16 Rapid transit cars 4 1 3 3 4 15 CTA trains 3 2 3 4 3 15 Ferry services 2 3 2 4 2 13 Cycling 1 4 2 2 1 10

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