3. (20 marks) The capacity of a highway is suddenly reduced due to a closure of...
The capacity of a highway is suddenly reduced to 50 percent of its normal capacity due to closure of certain lanes in a work zone. If the Greenshields model describes the relationship between speed and density on the highway, the jam density of the highway is 111 veh/mi, and the mean free speed is 69 mi/h, determine by what percentage the space mean speed at the vicinity of the work zone will be reduced if the flow upstream is 80...
5. Traffic on Route 15 south of Selinsgrove was observed at two different times. The first observation found a flow rate of 1,863 vehicles per hour per lane and a density of 85 vehicles per mile. The second observation found a flow rate of 1,050 vehicles per hour per lane and a density of 25 vehicles per mile. Using this data, compute the following: a. For both observations, determine the vehicle speed [mph] and the time headway [sec] b. If...
Five-minute average speed in km/h and flow rate in veh/h during 12 hours were collected from a section of the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 in Toronto. The collected data were plotted to form the scatter diagram shown in the figure below. A curve was drawn to describe the general relationship between speed and flow rate q as shown in the figure. 120 300 Speed km/h 60 1000 Flow Rate vel (a) From the above speed-flow rate curve, determine the...