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    Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi CVL 742: Traffic Engineering Problem Set 2: Traffic Stream Characteristics Problem 1

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    This document contains 5 problems related to traffic stream characteristics from a traffic engineering course. Problem 1 asks to calculate peak hourly flow rates given total hourly volumes and peak hour factors. Problem 2 asks to calculate traffic density from occupancy measured over 15 minutes. Problem 3 asks to analyze hourly traffic count data to find the peak hour, volume, and flow rate. Problem 4 asks to calculate time-mean and space-mean speeds from travel time data. Problem 5 asks to analyze a calibrated speed-flow-density relationship and derive equations for flow, density, speed and flow, and mathematically determine the capacity.

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    Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi CVL 742: Traffic Engineering Problem Set 2: Traffic Stream Characteristics Problem 1

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    This document contains 5 problems related to traffic stream characteristics from a traffic engineering course. Problem 1 asks to calculate peak hourly flow rates given total hourly volumes and peak hour factors. Problem 2 asks to calculate traffic density from occupancy measured over 15 minutes. Problem 3 asks to analyze hourly traffic count data to find the peak hour, volume, and flow rate. Problem 4 asks to calculate time-mean and space-mean speeds from travel time data. Problem 5 asks to analyze a calibrated speed-flow-density relationship and derive equations for flow, density, speed and flow, and mathematically determine the capacity.

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    This document contains 5 problems related to traffic stream characteristics from a traffic engineering course. Problem 1 asks to calculate peak hourly flow rates given total hourly volumes and peak hour factors. Problem 2 asks to calculate traffic density from occupancy measured over 15 minutes. Problem 3 asks to analyze hourly traffic count data to find the peak hour, volume, and flow rate. Problem 4 asks to calculate time-mean and space-mean speeds from travel time data. Problem 5 asks to analyze a calibrated speed-flow-density relationship and derive equations for flow, density, speed and flow, and mathematically determine the capacity.

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    Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi CVL 742: Traffic Engineering Problem Set 2: Traffic Stream Characteristics Problem 1

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    This document contains 5 problems related to traffic stream characteristics from a traffic engineering course. Problem 1 asks to calculate peak hourly flow rates given total hourly volumes and peak hour factors. Problem 2 asks to calculate traffic density from occupancy measured over 15 minutes. Problem 3 asks to analyze hourly traffic count data to find the peak hour, volume, and flow rate. Problem 4 asks to calculate time-mean and space-mean speeds from travel time data. Problem 5 asks to analyze a calibrated speed-flow-density relationship and derive equations for flow, density, speed and flow, and mathematically determine the capacity.

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    K. Ramachandra Rao Sep 2021



    Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi
    CVL 742: Traffic Engineering
    Problem set 2: Traffic stream characteristics

    Problem 1
    A volume of 900 veh/h is observed at an intersection approach. Find the peak rate of flow
    within an hour for the following peak-hour factors: 1:00, 0.90. 0.80, and 0.70. Plot and
    comment on the results.

    Problem 2
    A freeway detector records an occupancy of 0.255 for a 15-minute period. If the detector is of
    1.00 m length, and the average vehicle length of 6 m, what is the density implied in this
    measurement?

    Problem 3
    The following counts were taken on a major arterial during the evening peak period (Table 1).
    From this data determine the following:
    a) The peak hour, b) the peak hour volume, c) the peak flow rate within the peak hour and d)
    the peak-hour factor (PHF).

    Table 1, Problem 3 Table 2, Problem 4
    Time Period Volume (veh) Vehicle Travel times (s)
    4:00-4:15 PM 300 1 156
    4:15-4:30 PM 325 2 144
    4:30-4:45 PM 340 3 144
    4:45 -5:00PM 360 4 168
    5:00-5:15 PM 330 5 126
    5:15-5:30 PM 310 6 132
    5:30-5:45 PM 280
    5:45 -6:00PM 240

    Problem 4
    The following (Table 2 above) travel times were measured for vehicles as they traversed 2.0 –
    km section of a highway. Compute the time mean and space-mean speed.

    Problem 5
    A study of speed-flow-density relationships at a particular site has resulted in the following
    calibrated relationship: v = 61.2 exp (-0.015 k)
    (a) Determine the free-flow speed and jam density for the relationship.
    (b) Derive equations for flow and density, and speed and flow for this site
    (c) Determine the capacity of the segment mathematically.

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