Str.

Politehnicii 1
500024 – Brașov
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PROIECT

Studenti:

Cristea Bogdan-Nicolae

Cojan Vlad

Bumbu Mihai

Programul de studii: AE

Coordonator ştiințific: Conf. dr. ing. Radu Sebastian

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1 Geographic position

Country : Romania

Town: Brasov

Street: Sir Ludwig van Beethoven

The intersection between Sirul Gheorghe Dima and Sirul Ludwig van Beethoven

Date 06.05.2022

Starting time of data recording: 14:40

Ending time of data recording: 15:40

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2 The purpose of the project

The purpose of this project is to determine and monitor the frequency of road traffic on a
chosen stairway with an exit from an intersection, having two directions of traffic. The first
step is to process the data that involves taking some data. I chose a street in Brasov where I

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recorded the flow of road traffic on that route. For an hour I gathered the necessary data for
the project in order to be able to advance further in the processing stage.

Objectives:

 Understanding statistical instruments to analyze experimental data.

 Acquiring new abilities to use the Excel programmed;
 Acquiring new competencies to interpret experimental data.

2.1 Establishing the types of vehicles and identifying the coefficients of equivalence
Traffic streams are made up of all types of vehicles, which lead to the heterogeneous aspect

of traffic streams. When conducting traffic analyses it is compulsory to collect data on special
data sheets, for various types of vehicles, correlating these vehicles with the standard or
unitary vehicle, i.e. the passenger car and the other vehicles in the class (see the table below)
for which the coefficient of equivalence is 1,0.

The value of the coefficients of equivalence is given in STAS 7348-86, and the new standard

SR 7348:2001 as follows:

Table 2-1 Types of vehicles and coefficients of equivalence

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2.2 Turning the data regarding the number of individual vehicles into standard
vehicles.
The values obtained, expressed in standard vehicles are summed up on each line and represent
the number of vehicles arriving at the analyzed location every 10 second. By grouping the
values recorded in column (10) for time headways of ∆t=10 seconds, there will be obtained
the values corresponding to xi for ∆t=20 seconds, and ∆t=30 seconds.

The processing of experimental data recorded on the data sheet is based on the random
character of traffic streams. Thus, the random variable X is defined. The random variables
used in traffic engineering are of two types:

 Discrete random variable (V.A.D.), for instance, vehicles arriving at a certain location;
 Continuous random variables (V.A.C.), for instance, vehicle speed recorded at a
certain point along the roadway or space headways between vehicles in a traffic
stream, etc.

The table 2.3 comprises the results of recordings done on 6.06.2020 at hour 14:40-15:40 at
time interval of ∆t=10 seconds.

Table 2-2

Table 2-3

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Table 2-4

The table 2.5 comprises the results of recordings done on 6.06.2020 at hour 14:40-15:40 at
time interval of ∆t=10 seconds.

Table 2-5

Table 2-6

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The table 2.7 comprises the results of recordings done on 6.06.2020 at hour 14:40-15:40 at
time interval of ∆t=10 seconds.

Table 2-7

Table 2-8

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3 Conclusion

In conclusion, this project helped us to better understand how to make a study of traffic in
Brasov and how we could visualize in the form of a graph the probability of a car appearing
on certain sections of road. This fact, in addition to helping us to understand the development
of the mathematical algorithm of calculation, also helped us to understand why some sections
of the road are more used than others.

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