Traffic and Highway Engineering
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ISBN: 9781305156241
Author: Garber, Nicholas J.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 6P
To determine
The speed of the road, estimate of 85th percentile speed.
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For a spot speed study in which 100 observations were obtained, the mean speed was 52 km/h and the standard deviation was 4.6 km/h. (BO0K: Traffic % Highway engineering, N. Gruber SI unit)
What is the margin of error on the estimate of true mean speed obtained from this sample?
What is a reasonable estimate of the 85th percentile speed based on the information available?
Speed data collected on an urban roadway yielded a standard deviation in speeds
of 4.8 mi/h.
(a) If an engineer wishes to estimate the average speed on the roadway at a 95%
confidence level so that the estimate is within 2 mi/h of the true average, how
many spot speeds should be collected?
(b) If the estimate of the average must be within 1 mi/h, what should the sample
size be?
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During a traffic speed survey, the following observations were recorded when a vehicle passes a
50 m long road section XY.
Vehicle Time of Passing X (seconds) Time of Passing Y (seconds)
1
4.5
5.8
6.1
6.3
7.5
23
4
5
2.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.5
Determine the following:
(i) Average time mean speed
(ii) Average space mean speed using the above data
(iii) Also verify the results obtained in (ii) above using relationship between the time mean speed
and space mean speed.
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