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Our study was done at the road opposite to UiTM Engineer Complex.

The
study involved 100 number of data which includes cars, buses, vans, lorry and
motorcycles. The road was chosen because it is often used by the road users in
UiTM. Besides, the location was chosen to observe the speed trend of vehicles
when there are speed hump. We have done the observation by shooting the
vehicles using the radar gun at 30o angle. This is to ensure the result to be more
accurate. It was done on Thursday from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm with sunny weather.
According Garber and Hoel, speed characteristics can be found from the
significant values during the observation. These values are average speed, median
speed, modal speed, the ith-percentile spot speed, pace and standard deviation of
speed. (Garber & Hoel, 2009)
Based on the calculation done, it can be found that the arithmetic mean
speed is 8.173 km/h. Meanwhile, the median speed is 10 km/h which is obtained
from the cumulative frequency distribution curve. The median speed is also known
as the 50th-percentile speed. At the 15th, 85th and 98th-perentile speeds are 2.50
km/h, 15.45 km/h and 20.95 km/h respectively.
Next, the modal speed is at range between 5.0 km/h to 9.9km/h with
frequency of 39 vehicles as shown one frequency histogram. The standard deviation
has been calculated using its respective formula and found to be

6.21 km/h.

The term 'Pace' refers to the range of speed which shows the biggest number
of observations. (Garber & Hoel, 2009) In our observation, a set of speed data
between 16 and 60 km/h. Thus, we decided to use an interval of 5 km/h. The pace is
41 km/h to 45 km/h since it shows the highest number of observations.
The standard error that is allowed in the experiment is

0.675 km/h. The

adequacy of data for 95 % confident significant level was checked and found to be
between 31.59 to 34.22 km/h.

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