What is the OAG?

1. What is the OAG? • A directory of North American and world airline flights and fares • An airline flight reservation system • A system for assignment of pro-numbers • A system for assignment of transportation commodity codes

2. What is the OAG? • A directory of North American and world airline flights and fares

3. Airlines estimate that travel agents are responsible for up to what percent of their sales tickets? • 25 • 75 • 50 • 90

4. Airlines estimate that travel agents are responsible for up to what percent of their sales tickets? • 90

5. Rail computer systems identify cars for reconsignment and diversions. What are these cars called? • Rollers • Passers • Progressors • Tracers

6. Rail computer systems identify cars for reconsignment and diversions. What are these cars called? • Rollers

7. What is a pro-number? • The carrier name identification • A commodity code • A location code • A shipment identification numbers • The electronic transfer of funds

8. What is a pro-number? • A shipment identification numbers

9. SABRE, PARS, and DATAS II are airline systems designed for? • Back haul movements • Reservations and bookings • Electronic funds transfer • Car passing

10. SABRE, PARS, and DATAS II are airline systems designed for? • Reservations and bookings

11. What type of motor carrier information system is used by carriers to relieve empty back hauls? • Reservations • Tracing • Car passing • Rate basing

12. What type of motor carrier information system is used by carriers to relieve empty back hauls? • Reservations

13. Which type of computer system is used to computerize and transmit basic shipment documents? • STCC • EFT • EDI • OAG

14. Which type of computer system is used to computerize and transmit basic shipment documents? • EDI

15. What information was generated when rail yard and junction personnel noted the car initials and numbers of each car moving through their yard or junction point? • Car rolling • Mainstreaming • Point basing • Car passing

16. What information was generated when rail yard and junction personnel noted the car initials and numbers of each car moving through their yard or junction point? • Car passing

17. What is the process of rate retrieval and comparison with freight bill charges called? • Pre-comparison • Pre-audit • Pre-parity • Pre-posting

18. What is the process of rate retrieval and comparison with freight bill charges called? • Pre-audit

19. Which of the following facilitates the collection of freight bills? • EFT • OAG • STCC • TOEF

20. Which of the following facilitates the collection of freight bills? • EFT

21. Which computer system processes, sorts, and reports information about competitors? • Telemarketing • Teleintelligence • Competitor tracing • Market intelligence

22. Which computer system processes, sorts, and reports information about competitors? • Market intelligence

23. Computer applications for motor carrier shipment control typically require the entry of which data input in order to trace the shipment? • Standard commodity codes • Rate basis position • Pro-number • Power distribution codes

24. Computer applications for motor carrier shipment control typically require the entry of which data input in order to trace the shipment? • Pro-number

25. What is the carrier function called that keeps track of carrier power unit movements and operating crews? • Power distribution • Tractor management • Fleet management • Scheduling analysis

26. What is the carrier function called that keeps track of carrier power unit movements and operating crews? • Power distribution

27. Which of the following would be considered the most expensive single transportation resource for a carrier? • Separate cargo-carrying devices • Containers • Power units • Vehicle operators

28. Which of the following would be considered the most expensive single transportation resource for a carrier? • Power units

29. Computer based maintenance systems are used to do which of the following? • Robotic depot level maintenance tasks • Robotic local level maintenance tasks • Transmit electronic instructions • Keep equipment maintenance records

30. Computer based maintenance systems are used to do which of the following? • Keep equipment maintenance records

31. What is the system called where shippers and receivers identify and measure critical quality attributes of service, and communicate them to carriers? • Quality insurance reporting • Performance measurement feedback • Attribute measurement reporting • Quality process feedback

32. What is the system called where shippers and receivers identify and measure critical quality attributes of service, and communicate them to carriers? • Performance measurement feedback

33. Quality attributes of carrier service include all of the following except? • Modal selection • Transit time reliability • Accuracy of shipment billing • Loss and damage experience

34. Quality attributes of carrier service include all of the following except? • Modal selection

35. The power of the ICC, prior to 1980, to establish minimum rates was essentially to protect which of the following? • Carriers • Shippers • The federal government • The state governments • International transportation

36. The power of the ICC, prior to 1980, to establish minimum rates was essentially to protect which of the following? • Carriers

37. What was the purpose of the rule of rate making in the Transportation Act of 1920? • To establish upper limits on motor carrier rates • To eliminate discrimination • To establish set criteria for water carrier rate making • To allow the railroads a fair return on their investment

38. What was the purpose of the rule of rate making in the Transportation Act of 1920? • To allow the railroads a fair return on their investment

39. Which of the following best describes the atmosphere of the federal control of transportation from 1887 to 1920? • Positive; developing a strong transportation system • Restrictive; controlling the railroad monopoly • Adequate; helping shippers and carriers equally • Ambivalent; aiding neither shippers or carriers

40. Which of the following best describes the atmosphere of the federal control of transportation from 1887 to 1920? • Restrictive; controlling the railroad monopoly

41. Entry regulations are established in transportation to control which of the following? • Excessive rates • Excessive competition • Monopolistic abuses • The recapture of excess profits

42. Entry regulations are established in transportation to control which of the following? • Excessive competition

43. The Transportation Act of 1920 provided that in the event a railroad made more than the prescribed return on investment, one-half of the excess was to be paid off to the ICC. What was this provision called? • The recapture clause • The refund clause • The rule of rate making • The contingency clause

44. The Transportation Act of 1920 provided that in the event a railroad made more than the prescribed return on investment, one-half of the excess was to be paid off to the ICC. What was this provision called? • The recapture clause

45. What did the 3R Act establish? • Amtrak • Conrail • Government control over Amtrak • Federal regulation of the pipeline

46. What did the 3R Act establish? • Conrail

47. Why is the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 considered to begin the era of intermodal regulation? • Because for the first time a concern for intramodal control was recognized • Because the federal government recognized that new modes of transportation would have to be created for national defense • Because this was the first major step toward regulating transportation at the federal level on an intermodal basis • Because the need was recognized to establish a common rule of rate making

48. Why is the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 considered to begin the era of intermodal regulation? • Because this was the first major step toward regulating transportation at the federal level on an intermodal basis

49. Which of the following created the Interstate Commerce Commission? • The Commission Organization Act • The Act to Regulate Commerce • The Granger Law • The Transportation Act of 1920

50. Which of the following created the Interstate Commerce Commission? • The Act to Regulate Commerce