transit system - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In 2009, Tero et al. grew a slime mold that optimally linked the nodes of one of these networks around Tokyo. For 10 points each:

[10e] Harry Beck designed an iconic circuit-diagram-style map of what sort of network in London with nodes like Piccadilly Circus and King’s Cross?

ANSWER: transit system [accept specific types of transit system like train, subway, metro, railway network, or underground; accept the Tube]

[10h] Tero found that the slime-mold rail network rated highly in this ability, and so would be robust to disruptions. In systems engineering, this two-word term refers to an ability to maintain operation despite component failure.

ANSWER: fault tolerance [or word forms like fault tolerant]

[10m] In 2022, Kay et al. used a slime mold model to propose disruption-robust networks for the Toronto subway and one of these places. The first American monorail and the first permanent PeopleMover opened at these places.

ANSWER: amusement parks [or theme parks; accept Disneyland, Walt Disney World, or Canada’s Wonderland; reject “world’s fair” or “expo”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	19.09	100%	82%	9%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
CWRU A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Kenyon A	OSU C	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU D (DII)	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Colorado College	10	0	0	10
Iowa	Texas D	10	0	10	20
NYU B	McGill E	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State	Missouri	10	0	10	20
Ole Miss	Oregon State	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Texas C	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	UIUC B	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Miami	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	UIUC C	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
WashU D	Purdue D	10	0	0	10
UChicago B	SIUE A	10	0	10	20
UIUC D	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Arkansas	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Central Oklahoma	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	LSE A	10	0	10	20
Cam D	Durham A	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Southampton A	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	LSE B	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Durham B	10	0	10	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Clark A	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	Boston University A	10	0	0	10
Diamond Brandeis	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Yale C	Brandeises Brew	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Carabrandeis	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Northeastern A	10	0	10	20
Tufts B	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Williams A	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Yale B	Boston University B	10	0	0	10
Stanford L	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Tennesse B	10	0	0	10
Emory A	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Emory B	South Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Tusculum A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan D (DII)	CWRU B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Pitt A	Ohio State A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Alberta	UW B	10	0	10	20
UBC B	SFU	10	0	10	20
UW A	UBC A	10	0	10	20