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BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

2nd SEMESTER 2019-2020

Course: CE G543: Traffic Flow Theory

Component: End Semester Marks: 70
Duration: 120 Minutes
Name: Roll No.:

[Question No. 1 = 101 Marks]

i) An intelligent driver who consumed alcohol will have a chance of ___________

a) Increased alertness b) Increase in reaction time
c) Increase in speed d) Increase in judgment
ii) What is the first stage in traffic engineering studies?
a) Traffic volume studies b) Spot speed studies
c) Speed and delay studies d) Origin and destination studies
iii) The number of vehicles that pass through a transverse line of road at a given time in a specified
direction is called __________
a) Traffic studies b) Traffic flow
c) Traffic density d) Traffic destination
iv) The traffic design in India is based on __________
a) 10th hourly volume b) 20th hourly volume
c) 30th hourly volume d) 45th hourly volume
v) If space mean speed of a vehicle is 50kmph, then the time-mean speed will be:
a) Less than 50kmph b) Greater than 50kmph
c) Equal to 50kmph d) Depends on the vehicle
vi) The distance between the two consecutive vehicles is called __________
a) Space headway b) Time headway
c) Jam density d) Traffic flow
vii) Parking facilities may be broadly classified into how many types?
a) One b) Two
c) Three d) Four
viii) The maximum number of cars can be parked in __________
a) Kerb parking b) Off-street parking
c) Parallel parking d) 90 degree parking
ix) When the speed of traffic flow becomes zero,then
a) traffic density attains maximum value whereas traffic volume becomes zero
b) traffic density and traffic volume both attain maximum value
c) traffic density and traffic volume both become zero
d) traffic density becomes zero whereas traffic volume attains maximum value
x) On a right-angled road intersection with two-way traffic, the total number of conflict points is:

a) 6 b) 11 c) 18 d) 24
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[Question No. 2 = 20 Marks]

(a) Define the following traffic flow parameters with unit: spot speed, running speed, density,
volume, capacity, headway, follow up time, occupancy time, critical gap, and operating speed.
Draw the fundamental diagrams of traffic flow. (10+3 M)
(b) What are the different types of shockwave? Represent these using Flow-Density diagram.
(1+6 = 7)
[Question No. 3 = 20 Marks]

(a) M/M/1 model: average number of customers in the system is given by ______. (1M)
(b) During a road construction an overhead crane of ABC Ltd. moves jobs from one machine to
another and must be used every time a machine requires loading or unloading. The demand for
service is random. Data taken by recording the elapsed time between service calls followed an
exponential distribution having a mean of a call every 24 minutes. In a similar manner, the actual
service time of loading or unloading took an average of 8 minutes. What is the average waiting
time in the system? (5M)

(c) A small railway ticket booking office has two counters – Counter 1 for enquiry and Counter 2
for ticket booking. Customer arrival is Poisson at 5 per hour to the enquiry and 10 per hour to the
ticket booking counter. Exponentially distributed service time in each counter is 4 minutes per
customer. Find average number of customers and waiting time in both the counters. (7M)

(d) In a small petrol pump, only one customer can get service while another customer can wait.
Any other arriving customer has to wait outside as there is only one waiting place available. The
customers arrive randomly at 6 per hour. The service is exponential and takes 6 minutes on the
average. Find the probability that an arriving customer will have to wait outside. (7M)

[Question No. 4 = 20 Marks]

(a)_______is a microscopic, time-step based, behavioral traffic-flow simulation model. (1M)

(b) Write the governing equations of Follow-the-leader model. (3M)

(c) The mid-block section of a highway with the current traffic scenario is shown in Figure.
Determine whether the subject vehicle (i.e., following vehicle at center lane) will change the lane.
Given that, the maximum sage deceleration is 2 m∕s2, the critical time gap (both lead and lag) is
0.7 sec, the coefficient of the gap acceptance model is 0.78, the sensitivity coefficient of the car-
following model is 25, the speed exponent is one, and the distance exponent is two. (16M)