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Assignment Traffic Engineering

The document contains 12 assignments related to transportation engineering topics such as traffic signals, traffic flow, geometric design, and transit systems. The assignments include calculating lengths of vertical curves, probabilities of vehicle arrivals, storage lane requirements, and progression of traffic signals. They also ask to describe transportation demand management measures, categories of transit system characteristics, and types of signal progressions.

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Assignment Traffic Engineering

The document contains 12 assignments related to transportation engineering topics such as traffic signals, traffic flow, geometric design, and transit systems. The assignments include calculating lengths of vertical curves, probabilities of vehicle arrivals, storage lane requirements, and progression of traffic signals. They also ask to describe transportation demand management measures, categories of transit system characteristics, and types of signal progressions.

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Assignment No.

Example 3.10: COMBINED SAG AND CREST VERTICAL CURVES WITH A CONSTANT GRADE
CONNECTION. Consider the conditions described in Example 3.9. Suppose a design speed of only 35
mi/h is needed. Determine the lengths of curves required to connect the bridge and tunnel while
keeping the connecting grade as small as possible. Note: Figure 3.9 relates to Example 3.10.

Example 3.9: COMBINED SAG AND CREST VERTICAL CURVES WITHOUT A CONSTANT GRADE
CONNECTION. An existing tunnel needs to be connected to a newly constructed bridge with sag and
crest vertical curves. The profile view of the tunnel and bridge is shown in Fig. 3.8. Develop a vertical
alignment to connect the tunnel and bridge by determining the highest possible common design speed
for the sag and crest (equal-tangent) vertical curves needed. Compute the stationing and elevations of
PVC, PVI, and PVT curve points.
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AASHTO 2011

Assignment No.2

A driver with 20/40 vision and a sixth-grade education needs 2 seconds to read a directional sign. The
letter size is such that the sign can be read by a person with 20/20 vision from a distance of 200 ft. Does
the subject driver have enough time to read the sign at a speed of 30 miles/hr?

Assignment No.3

The street name sizes on the signs at a certain location can be discerned by a person with 20/40 vision
from a distance of 300 ft. How much longer should the street names be in order to be legible (readable)
to a person with 20/50 vision from a distance of 450 ft?

Assignment No.4

A witness with 20/60 vision supplied to the investigating officer the license plate number of a vehicle
involved in a hit-and-run accident. If under the conditions that prevailed at the time of the accident a
license plate can be read by a person with 20/20 vision from a distance of 180 ft, What is the maximum
distance for which the witness’s testimony can be relied upon.
Assignment No.5

Vertical curve bridge clearance problem: A -4% grade and a 0% grade meeting at station 24+40.00 and
elevation 2421.54 ft are joined by an 800 ft vertical curve. The curve passes under an overpass at station
25+00.00. If the lowest elevation of the overpass is 2439.93 ft, calculate the available clearance.

Assignment No.6

A parabolic vertical curve joins a grade of -4% to a grade of +5%. The PVI is at station 11+56.30.
Elevation of the PVI is 435.95 ft. The curve passes under a bridge at station 12+00. The elevation of the
bottom of the bridge is 480 ft. The minimum vertical clearance under the bridge is 14 ft 6 inches. Find
the required length of the curve.

(a) If the design speed is 70 mph, is this length adequate for safe stopping sight distance for sag
curves. Use a headlight height of 2 ft and a 1-degree upward divergence of the headlight beam
angle.
(b) Will this design provide for adequate stopping sight distance with regard to the underpass as the
overhead structure may create a problem by shortening the sight distance (assume a design
speed of 70 mph)? Use a height of eye of 8 ft and height of object/tail light of preceding vehicle
of 2 ft.

Assume a driver perception reaction time of 2.5 sec and a vehicle deceleration of 11.2 ft/sec2.

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Assignment No.7

Calculate the minimum length of a crest vertical curve with G1 = +5% and G2 = -2% with adequate
passing sight distance for a 2-lane highway with a design speed of 60 mph. For passing sight distance,
assume a height of driver eye above roadway of 3.5 ft and height of object above roadway of 3.5 ft.

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AASHTO 2011
Assignment No.8

AASHTO 2011
AASHTO 2011

Assignment No.9

Left-turning vehicles randomly arrive at a signalized intersection that has a separate left-turn phase. The
number of left-turning vehicles arriving during the design hour is 120 vehicles. The length of the signal
cycle is 90 seconds. Determine the following:

(a) The probabilities of 0, 1, 2, …….. ,10 vehicles arriving during the cycle length in the design hour. [hint:
Use the Poisson’s distribution].
(b) The minimum-length left-turn storage lane so that during only one cycle in the design hour will the
left-turning traffic block the through traffic. (Assume that stored left-turn vehicles occupy 30 ft of
space and that there is no flow from one cycle to the next).
(c) The probability of through vehicles being blocked, assuming that the left-turn storage designed above
is built but the hourly rate has doubled.

Assignment No.10
What are Transportation Demand Management measures? Describe in detail (a) Spatial Demand-shift
Methods (b) Temporal and Modal Demand-shift Methods.
Assignment No.11

Relevant to signal systems, describe in detail (with the help of diagrams) (a) The Alternate Progression
(b) The Double-Alternating progression (c) The Simultaneous Progression.

Assignment No.12

Describe in detail the four categories of Transit System Characteristics.

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