Search results
Spot speeds are useful to study paints of congestion, for locating traffic signals, or for enforcing speed limits. Running speeds are useful to assess the traffic capacity of highways.
This document describes a laboratory activity for a Highway Engineering course involving a running speed study. Students will use a moving vehicle technique to collect travel time and delay data along a test route.
In this laboratory activity students will be exposed to the appropriate methods to carry out Running Speed Study using moving vehicle technique. 2 Objective To conduct the Running Speed Study and evaluate the quality of traffic movement along a route and determine the traffic delays by using a moving vehicle technique 3 Apparatus • Stop Watches
To calculate vehicle speed, use the predetermined study length and the elapsed time it took the vehicle to move through the course (as recorded on the stopwatch data form) in the following formula (Robertson 1994):
This lab experiment measured the running speed along a 6.7km route using a moving vehicle technique. Data on travel times, delays, and traffic volumes were collected during trips in both the eastward and westward directions.
Chapter 1. Kinematics: describing motion. LEARNING INTENTIONS. In this chapter you will learn how to: define and use displacement, speed and velocity. draw and interpret displacement–time graphs. describe laboratory methods for determining speed. understand the differences between scalar and vector quantities and give examples of each.
In this laboratory activity, a distance of 0.5 km between two points at particular location is chosen and a time for a vehicle passing through from first point to another point is recorded. The running speed is measured by dividing the distance passing through with the time taken.
