Test your transportation knowledge
Quiz: Minnesota's Transportation System
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1.
How many total miles of streets, road and highways are there in Minnesota?
Correct Answer:141,042 miles
How Other People Answered:
- 67,998 miles
- 98,652 miles
- 113,651 miles
- 141,042 miles
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2.
True or false? About 50% of roadway travel in Minnesota occurs on the 9% of the highway system that's in the metropolitan area.
Correct Answer:True
How Other People Answered:
- True
- False
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3.
It's been a snowy year! About how many "lane miles" of state highway is Mn/DOT reponsible for clearing?
Correct Answer:30,000
How Other People Answered:
- 6,000
- 18,000
- 30,000
- 42,000
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4.
In 2008 public transportation provided:
Correct Answer:92 million trips in the metro and 11 million in Greater Minnesota
How Other People Answered:
- 92 million trips in the metro and 11 million in Greater Minnesota
- 120 million trips in the metro and 8 million in Greater Minnesota
- 92 million trips in the metro and 8 million in Greater Minnesota
- 120 million trips in the metro and 11 million in Greater Minnesota
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5.
How many destinations could be reached on nonstop flights from Minnesota in 2008?
Correct Answer:134 (113 domestic and 21 international)
How Other People Answered:
- 28
- 67
- 92
- 134
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6.
How does Minnesota compare to other states in terms of the most amout of rail track operated?
Correct Answer:8th, with over 4,631 miles of track
How Other People Answered:
- 8th
- 14th
- 22nd
- 29th
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7.
How much has bike use changed since 2007?
Correct Answer:increased by 33%
How Other People Answered:
- stayed about the same
- increased by 17%
- increased by 33%
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8.
How much has walking increased or decreased since 2007?
Correct Answer:increased by 17%
How Other People Answered:
- decreased by 4%
- stayed about the same
- increased by 17%
- increased by 33%
I second Hilary's request. Everyone needs to know the facts about our current system.
Ross, check out the Vehicle Miles of Travel Trends in Minnesota: 1992-2009: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/traffic/data/reports/2009%20VMT%20Report.pdf. While the report doesn't go back 30 years, it does look at VMT and population, noting that since 2004 individuals in Minnesota are driving less.
It would be interesting to see how VMT has increased relative to population over the last 30 years. Likewise what has happened to SOV use and car pooling.
Jamie,
Check out the 2009 transportation performance report, which is full of data on system performance as well as basic descriptive stats on transportation modes: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/measures/pdf/PerformanceReportLowRes.pdf
Also, Bike Walk Twin Cities recently published their 2010 bike/walk counts from the metro area at: http://bit.ly/gvljLB
Can you publish data from which all these questions were derived? Having a snapshot/overview of Minnesota's transportation infrastructure would be great!
Hilary, that's a great suggestion. We'll add a question about size relative to other states to a future quiz.
It would also be good perhaps to add a question about how the size of Minnesota's overall road system compares with other states. We have a very big road system that is expensive to maintain.