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Transpo Test 2
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Civil Engineering
Undergraduate 3
11/03/2015

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In a D/D/1 system, queues occur when
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Arrival rate is greater than departure rate
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In a D/D/1 system, the horizontal distance in the triangle
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Is the delay
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In a D/D/1 system, the vertical distance in the triangle
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Is the queue length
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In a D/D/1 system, the area of the triangle
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Is the delay
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A 4-lane highway has
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2 lanes in each direction
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The maximum flow is obtained in level of service:
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E
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US460 and prices fork is a good example of
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A weaving section
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The PCE for an upgrade of 3.7% on a freeway segment of 1.2 miles and 3% trucks is
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3.5
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The level of service on a freeway can be looked up using a table based on
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Density
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Which analysis of the following is similar to the freeway LOS analysis?
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Multi-lane highways
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FFS cannot be directly plugged into the density-speed-volume equation because
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FFS decreases with the increase in volume
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ATS and PTSF must be both used in calculating the LOS for
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Class I 2-lane highways
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If the volume exceeds capacity in 2-lane highways
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It’s LOS F
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Time mean speed is a function of
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Number of vehicles, spot speed
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Space mean speed is a function of
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Length of roadway used, travel time of each vehicle, number of vehicles
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The max flow rate is a function of these
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What are kj, uf, ….
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The equation that relates flow to speed and density is this
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Q=uk
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the poisson prob of having n vehicles in time interval t is a function of these
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Average vehicle arrival and duration of time interval
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The time headway between arrivals is modeled by
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The negative exponential distribution
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The number of vehicle arrivals is usually modeled by
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Poisson distribution
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The length of roadway divided by the average vehicle travel time is
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Space mean speed
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Density is defined
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Vehicles per unit distance
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These are the three macroscopic traffic stream parameters
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Flow density speed
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factors that affect the free flow speed on multi-lane highways
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Lane width, lateral clearance, access frequency
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Two service measures used on two lane highways
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PTSF and ATS
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Two functional classifications of the two-lane highways
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Class I and II
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In two lane highways if Vp than 3200 pc/h the LOS is
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F
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Factors that affect free flow speed on freeways
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Number of lanes, interchange density, clearance, lane width
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