Transportation Worksheet

1. Pick an East Coast and a West Coast City that you’ll travel between. Write them here.

2. What is the total distance of the route Google Earth has chosen for you?

3. Paste a screen shot of your route here.

4. Select 5 different cars that your clients could possibly rent. Using figures for their gas mileage, calculate the amount of fuel you would need to use for the entire trip (remember it’s a round trip). Assume gas is the same price everywhere: $2.25 per gallon.

Automobile

Gas Mileage (MPG)

Total Gallons Used

5. Since you might not want to go with a rental car the whole way, short distance train or bus trips might be considered. Beginning from your first city selected, pick another city your clients could stop in that is no more than 200 miles away. Amtrak offers online pricing to help you. Find the prices that railways and/or bus lines offer between these two cities.

6. Using the information that you gathered based on gas prices and mass transportation from Questions 4 & 5, make a plan of what type of transportation will be used for all parts of the cross country route. Include the price each mode of transportation will have. Fill in the table below with the requested information.

Departure City	Arrival City	Distance Traveled	Mode of Transportation	Price
		Total:		Total:

7.

a. For safety’s sake your clients shouldn’t drive more than 500 miles per day. If their average speed is 55 mph and they go 500 miles total, how many hours will they travel in one day?

b. What percent of the total day does your answer to part (a) represent?

c. Five hundred miles is what percent of the total distance from your beginning city to your final city?

d. Let’s say your clients decide to travel 7% of the trip’s total distance every day. How many miles would they travel daily if this is true?