1. The document is an examination for a transportation course containing 4 problems related to topics like visual acuity, traffic flow, braking distance, and speed data analysis.
2. Problem 1 contains 15 true/false questions about vision and its relationship to speed, peripheral vision, traffic density, and headways.
3. Problem 2 involves calculating toll revenues given traffic volume decreases as toll increases, in order to determine the toll that maximizes revenue.
4. Problem 3 involves calculating braking distance for a vehicle going downhill, as well as sign legibility distances.
5. Problem 4 provides speed data and asks examinee to calculate mean speed, standard deviation, and 85th percentile speed.
1. The document is an examination for a transportation course containing 4 problems related to topics like visual acuity, traffic flow, braking distance, and speed data analysis.
2. Problem 1 contains 15 true/false questions about vision and its relationship to speed, peripheral vision, traffic density, and headways.
3. Problem 2 involves calculating toll revenues given traffic volume decreases as toll increases, in order to determine the toll that maximizes revenue.
4. Problem 3 involves calculating braking distance for a vehicle going downhill, as well as sign legibility distances.
5. Problem 4 provides speed data and asks examinee to calculate mean speed, standard deviation, and 85th percentile speed.
1. The document is an examination for a transportation course containing 4 problems related to topics like visual acuity, traffic flow, braking distance, and speed data analysis.
2. Problem 1 contains 15 true/false questions about vision and its relationship to speed, peripheral vision, traffic density, and headways.
3. Problem 2 involves calculating toll revenues given traffic volume decreases as toll increases, in order to determine the toll that maximizes revenue.
4. Problem 3 involves calculating braking distance for a vehicle going downhill, as well as sign legibility distances.
5. Problem 4 provides speed data and asks examinee to calculate mean speed, standard deviation, and 85th percentile speed.
1. The document is an examination for a transportation course containing 4 problems related to topics like visual acuity, traffic flow, braking distance, and speed data analysis.
2. Problem 1 contains 15 true/false questions about vision and its relationship to speed, peripheral vision, traffic density, and headways.
3. Problem 2 involves calculating toll revenues given traffic volume decreases as toll increases, in order to determine the toll that maximizes revenue.
4. Problem 3 involves calculating braking distance for a vehicle going downhill, as well as sign legibility distances.
5. Problem 4 provides speed data and asks examinee to calculate mean speed, standard deviation, and 85th percentile speed.
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Course: ETC 2500—Transportation I
Date: Thursday, September 27, 202010
Task: 1st Hourly Examination
Instructions This is a closed book examination. Please read and solve all four (4) problems carefully. It is estimated that each problem can be solved in roughly 15 minutes. Start a new problem on a separate page. Please show your work very clearly and neatly. ________________________ PROBLEM #1: For the following problems write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false in the brackets 1. Visual acuity is the ability to see fine details clearly. The most acute vision is within a narrow cone of 100-120 ( )
2. Visual acuity is 20/20 if a person can recognize 0.33 in letter at a distance of
20-ft. ( )
3. As speed increases, visual concentration decreases. ( )
4. As speed increases, the point of visual concentration recedes. At 25 mph, the
driver is focusing about 600 ft ahead, at 45 mph it is 1200 ft, and at 65 mph, it is 2000 ft. ( )
5. As speed increases, peripheral vision increases. At 25 mph it is about 100
degrees; 45 mph, it narrows to 65 degrees; and at 65 mph, it is less than 40 degrees. ( )
6. The braking distance includes the distance traveled from the moment the driver observes the object to the when the brakes are engaged. ( )
7. The derivation of the braking distance has four main assumptions; negligible air resistance, friction remains constant, variable deceleration rate, and the wheels remain locked i.e., no slipping occurs ( ).
8. Weekday peak periods are generally between 8-10 a.m. and 6-8 p.m ( )
9. If local data is not available for traffic impact studies then, conduct trip generation studies at sites with characteristics similar to those of the proposed development. ( ) 2
10. Density is the number of vehicles traveling over a unit time of highway at a given length ( )
11. Flow is the number of vehicles passing a point per unit of time ( )
12. Time mean speed is generally lower than space mean speed with the difference decreasing as absolute values of speeds increase. ( )
13. Time headway is the difference between the time the back of a vehicle arrives at a point on the highway and the time the front of the next vehicle arrives at the same point. ( )
14. Mathematically, the space mean speed is a harmonic mean, while the time mean speed is a straight forward average of individual vehicle speeds. ( )
15. Space mean speed is a point measure, while time mean speed is a measure relating to a length of highway or lane. ( )
PROBLEM #2 Consideration is being given to increasing the toll on a bridge now carrying 4,500 vehicles per day. The current toll is 125 cents per vehicle. It has been found from past experience that the daily traffic volume will decrease by 400 vehicles per day for each 25 cents increase in toll.
(a) Write the expression for travel demand on the bridge, related to the toll increase and current volume.
(b) Determine traffic volume per day after toll increase
(c) Determine total revenue increase with new toll
(d) Determine toll charge to maximize revenues.
(e) Using the result from part (d), calculate the highest revenue possible 3
PROBLEM # 3 Part (a) For the diagram below, show that the breaking distance (BD) for a vehicle going downgrade is given by;
U 2 V 2 BD a 30 G g
Part (b) The street name signs at a certain location can be discerned by a person with 20/40 vision from a distance of 300 feet. How much larger should they be in order to be legible to a person with 20/50 vision from a distance of 450 feet?
Part (c) An alert driver (with a reaction time of 0.5 seconds) is driving downhill on a 4 percent grade at 35 mph on a dry pavement when suddenly a person steps from behind a parked car in the path of the driver, at a distance of 100 ft. (a) Can the driver stop in time (locked wheels)? f=0.7. (b) Can the driver stop in time on a rainy day? f=0.4. a Hint: f g
PROBLEM #4 The following data was collected on State Route 45 in Leon County, Florida. Calculate: 4
(a) the mean speed
(b) the standard deviation (c) the 85th percentile speed
