Traffic and Highway Engineering – CE123

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ASSESSMENT NO. 02

1. Two platoons of cars are timed over a distance of 0.5km. Their flows are recorded. The first group is timed
at 40 seconds, with the flow at 1350 vehicles per hour. The second group take 45 seconds, with a flow of
1800 vehicles per hour. Determine the maximum flow of the traffic stream.

2. Data obtained from aerial photography showed six vehicles on a 600 ft-long section of road. Traffic data
collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4 sec. Determine (a) the density on the
highway, (b) the flow on the road, and (c) the space mean speed.

3. Assume you are an observer standing at a point along a three-lane roadway. All vehicles in lane 1 are
traveling at 30 mi/h, all vehicles in lane 2 are traveling at 45 mi/h, and all vehicles in lane 3 are traveling
at 60 mi/h. There is also a constant spacing of 0.5 mile between vehicles. If you collect spot speed data for
all vehicles as they cross your observation point, for 30 minutes, what will be the time-mean speed and
space-mean speed for this traffic stream?

4. Observers stationed at two sections XX and YY, 500 ft. apart on a highway, record the arrival times of four
vehicles as shown in the accompanying table. If the total time of observation at XX was 15 sec, determine
(a) the time mean speed, (b) the space mean speed, and (c) the flow at section XX.

5. Two sets of students are collecting traffic data at two sections, xx and yy, of a highway 1500 ft apart.
Observations at xx show that five vehicles passed that section at intervals of 3, 4, 3, and 5 sec, respectively.
If the speeds of the vehicles were 50, 45, 40, 35, and 30 mi/h, respectively, draw a schematic showing the
locations of the vehicles 20 sec after the first vehicle passed section xx. Also determine (a) the time mean
speed, (b) the space mean speed, and (c) the density on the highway.