You are designing a freeway as a passenger-car only facility, and with ideal roadway characteristics. It is estimated that the freeway will have a traffic demand of 75,000 vehicles per day, a free-flow speed of 70 mi/h, a traffic stream of primarily commuters, a peak-hour factor of 0.88, and a directional distribution of 0.65. Determine the number of lanes (both directions) required to provide at least LOS C using the 40th highest annual hourly volume (K = 0.116). A 6 B) 4 10 D) 8

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You are designing a freeway as a passenger-car only facility, and with ideal roadway characteristics. It is estimated that the freeway will have a
traffic demand of 75,000 vehicles per day, a free-flow speed of 70 mi/h, a traffic stream of primarily commuters, a peak-hour factor of 0.88, and
a directional distribution of 0.65. Determine the number of lanes (both directions) required to provide at least LOS C using the 40th highest
annual hourly volume (K = 0.116).
A 6
B) 4
c) 10
D) 8
Transcribed Image Text:You are designing a freeway as a passenger-car only facility, and with ideal roadway characteristics. It is estimated that the freeway will have a traffic demand of 75,000 vehicles per day, a free-flow speed of 70 mi/h, a traffic stream of primarily commuters, a peak-hour factor of 0.88, and a directional distribution of 0.65. Determine the number of lanes (both directions) required to provide at least LOS C using the 40th highest annual hourly volume (K = 0.116). A 6 B) 4 c) 10 D) 8
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