Course: CE—Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning

Task: Examination #2
Due Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Instructions
This is an open-book, -notes examination. Read all problems carefully. Solve all three
(2) problems. The total time for the examination is 60 minutes. Please show your work
very clearly and neatly. Start a new problem on a separate page.

PROBLEM 1 (50 Marks)

Consider the intersection of Thumb and Jerky Streets as having the geometric characteristics
shown in the figure below. A traffic survey revealed that the saturation flow rate for left turn
lanes is 1,615 vph per lane and for any shared lane is 1,900 vph per lane. The lost time per
phase, li, is 3 seconds. Jerky Street is on a level terrain while Thumb Street has a grade of +2
percent in the northbound direction. In addition, the speed limit on Thumb Street is 45 mph and
on Jerky Street is 30 mph.

40 ft

Jerky Street
450
750
WE = 8 ft

PHF = 0.92

(a) Calculate the yellow interval,  min, on Jerky Street.

(b) Calculate the yellow interval on Thumb Street,
(c) Using a 3-phase system, determine the critical Yi ratios per phase,
(d) Draw a ring diagram for a proposed phasing system
(e) Determine the optimum cycle length using Webster equation. Assume the all-red time is
zero.
(f) Determine the minimum pedestrian green time, Gp, if the number of pedestrians per
interval, Nped, is 40 and the walking speed, Sp, is 4 ft/sec.
PROBLEM 2 (50 Marks)

Complete the second and third iterations using Gravity Model