Urban Mobility
Transportation Trivia
Vancouver
Definitions
100
Who is Canada's Minister of Transportation?
Marc Garneau
100
Which province has the most road surface than any other in the country?
(Hint: a total of 250,000 km)
Saskatchewan
100
30 km path that takes pedestrians and cyclists and skaters along Canada Place, False Creek, Stanley Park to Spanish Banks
Seawall
100
ST
Sustainable transportation
200
What is the app that connects driver-partners and riders?
Uber or Lyft
200
Which country buys more oil from Canada than any other country?
USA
200
This passenger-only double-ended ferry leaves every 15 minutes and crosses the Burrard Inlet
SeaBus
200
Monorail
300
Which city is best known for being a bicycle-friendly city?
Copenhagen
300
Which is the longest street in the world?
(Hint: in Province of Ontario)
Yonge Street
300
True or false: 50% of trips in Vancouver are made on foot, bike or transit
True
300
HOFO
Hands-off, feet-off, a type of semi-autonomous vehicle
400
Who is the co-author of "Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil”?
Anthony Perl
400
Which city in Canada is known as the "Gateway to the North"?
Edmonton
400
A lift that takes passengers up to the Stawamus Chief and overlooks Howe Sound--allowing passengers to skip the 853 metre hike
Sea to Sky Gondola
400
When transit and other public transportation agencies engage the public in meaningful ways, not just after-the-fact so-called ‘consultations’
Participatory planning
500
The first Bus rapid transit (BRT) system in the world was in which City? And in which year was it established?
Curitiba, Brazil, in 1974
500
The Longest Highway in the World?
The Trans-Canada Highway
(Between Victoria, BC and St. John's, NF is the world's longest national highway with a length of 7,821 km / 4,860 miles)
500
Proposed “ultra-high-speed” rail that will connect Vancouver, Seattle and Portland and will use maglev technology
Cascadia Rail
500
Occurs as a kind of natural process as cities get bigger, constitutes a move away from the original monocentric structure of large metropolises
Polycentrism