Cebu Institute of Technology

U N I V E R S I T Y
N. Bacalso Ave., Cebu City

CE431 – M01/M02-AP3
PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Name: __________________________ Course & Yr.: ___________ Date: ___________

EXERCISE NO. 1
Answer the following and show your complete solution:

Problem 1

A motorist traveling at 104 kph on an expressway intends to leave the expressway using an exit ramp with
a maximum speed of 56 kph. At what point on the expressway should the motorist step on his brakes in
order to reduce his speed to the maximum allowable on the ramp just before entering the ramp, if this
section of the expressway has a downgrade of 3%? Acceleration is 3.4 m/s2. (15 pts)

Problem 2

A car was traveling at a speed of 80 kph. The driver saw a road block 80 m ahead and stopped on the brake
causing the car to decelerate uniformly at 10 m/s2. Assuming perception-reaction time is 2 sec, determine
the distance from the roadblock to the point where the car will stop in meters. (10 pts)

Problem 3

Compute the minimum length of vertical curve that will provide 190 m stopping sight distance for a design
speed of 100 kph at the intersection of a – 2.6% grade and a + 2.40% grade. (10 pts)