UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Traffic Laboratory
Experiment No.6
Spot Speed

PREPARED BY
Mohammed Safaa Askander
B-Group 1
3rd stage
Traffic Laboratory EXP. NO.6: Spot Speed

Groupmate
Hala Star
Amna Hussein
Mustafa Abbas
Zainab Alaa Nasser
Mohammed Safaa Askander

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Introduction:
The distribution of speeds of vehicles in a traffic at certain place on a road can be found through spot speed
studies. The speed of vehicles is defined as kilometers per hour(km/h). the spot speed study is carried out by
recording the speed of a sample of vehicles at the specified location. However, speed characteristics
identified by such a study will be valid only for traffic and environmental conditions that exist at the time of
the study.
Calculations:
The table under shown the date used in this experiment (velocity MPH):
23.42 36.49 22.48 35.56 21.66
23.42 21.72 12.29 21.93 30.44
23.90 22.37 21.39 21.55 29.20
30.56 22.78 22.37 24.69 16.57
23.18 21.93 26.13 24.99 16.57
19.61 21.89 27.48 26.63 31.29
19.61 26.95 29.32 25.83 28.90
16.76 23.65 26.92 29.32 21.87
16.69 25.83 18.11 19.76 21.89
16.76 16.73 18.04 23.01 13.82
22.85 12.78 17.06 30.60 32.75
12.69 18.20 34.95 26.98 30.98
14.50 13.64 31.51 17.04 25.39
33.04 16.66 21.24 28.53 13.99
22.46 34.95 30.60 17.46 28.83
33.64 35.96 35.96 18.60 17.00
14.12 28.61 18.74 15.02 26.54
16.79 12.62 31.60 12.55 29.09
17.21 25.95 21.91 21.82 18.56
13.48 36.08 14.22 14.71 20.37

percent of total cumulative percent

speed group (Mph) mean speed of group number of veh. In group
observation in group of total observation
5-10 7.5 0 0 0
10-15 12.5 13 13 13
15-20 17.5 23 23 36
20-25 22.5 27 27 63
25-30 27.5 19 19 82
30-35 32.5 13 13 95
35-40 37.5 5 5 100
40-45 42.5 0 0 100
100 100

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30

25
% of total observation

20

15

10

0
5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45
speed (MPH)

30

25
% of total observation

20
Pace
15

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
speed(mph)

120

100

80
cumulative percentage

60 67% of vehicles in pace

𝑃98 = 35𝑚𝑝ℎ
𝑃85 = 28.25𝑚𝑝ℎ
𝑃50 = 20.65𝑚𝑝ℎ

40

20
𝑃15 = 13𝑚𝑝ℎ

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

Figures above shows the frequency and the cumulative frequency distribution curves

5 𝑚𝑝ℎ
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Discussion:
• The study carried out at U.O.B, a 100-meter measured between
two points which shown in the fig. in the red doted lines, and
recorded the time each car takes to across these two points,
sample include 100 cars.
• From the curves the data blow shown:
I. 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒(15 𝑚𝑝ℎ) = (14 −
29) 𝑚𝑝ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑠 67% 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
II. 𝑃15 = 13 𝑚𝑝ℎ
III. 𝑃85 = 28.25𝑚𝑝ℎ
IV. 𝑃98 = 35𝑚𝑝ℎ
V. 𝑃50 = 20.65𝑚𝑝ℎ
𝑃85 −𝑝15 28.25−13
VI. 𝑆= 2
= 2
= 7.64
VII. 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒 = 23.42
• Should be notice that before the two points there was an obstacle which slow down the cars,
and that affect the curves.

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