Ceasar Ej G.

Diaz
BCE 412 - 2290

IN A NUTSHELL

I. What have I learned from this chapter?

This chapter discussed about traffic characteristics, where pedestrian or the

people, vehicles, road, spot speed, volume studies, and parking facility. The driver,
pedestrian, vehicle, and road are the four basic components of highway method of
transportation. Bicycles are also becoming more prevalent in urban highway and
street design. The features and limitations of each of these components must be
understood in order to offer effective and safe highway transit. It's also crucial to
understand the interconnections between these elements in order to figure out what,
if any, effects they have on one another. Drivers' actions on the road are the
consequence of their assessment of and reaction to information obtained from
particular stimuli and they see or hear. However, because the information received
along the roadways is constantly changing, evaluation and reaction must be
completed in a relatively short period. It has been stated that a driver's vision
receives the majority of the information he or she receives, meaning that vision is
critical to the driving task. As a result, highway and transportation infrastructure are
critical. Engineers who work with traffic have a basic understanding of both visual
and auditory perception. There are four processes by which a driver, cyclist, or
pedestrian assesses and reacts to a situation; (1) The driver notices a control device,
a warning sign, or an object on the road and perceives it. (2) Identification: The driver
recognizes the item or control device and, as a result, comprehends the stimulus. (3)
Emotion: the driver chooses what action to perform in response to the stimuli, such
as applying the brakes, passing, swerving, or changing lanes. (4) The driver really
performs the action decided upon during the emotion sub-process, whether it is a
reaction or a desire. Depending on the traffic conditions that lead to the development
of shock waves, many forms of shock waves might occur. There are four types of
shock waves: frontal stationary, backward forming, backward recovery, rear
stationary, and forward recovery. The theory of queuing thus entails the application
of mathematical algorithms to describe the processes that result in the creation of
queues, allowing for a thorough examination of the impacts of lineups. Queue
analysis can be carried out using either deterministic or stochastic queue
characteristics.

II. Explain briefly the significant ideas that enlightened you as a future engineer?

The essential ideas that I learned in this chapter that will greatly help me as a future
engineer are to study and analyze through roughly the plan because irrational
planning of highway will have a negative impact on the environment.

III. How will these concepts influence my future work?

This concept influences my mindset about planning and developing an infrastructure.
It changes my future goal on how to do things that are connected to buildings