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Transpo Assignment 1 Midterms

The document provides details for an assignment on transportation engineering problems. It includes 4 problems to solve related to vehicle speeds, braking distances, coefficients of friction, and passing sight distances. The problems involve calculations for vehicle skidding, braking, and overtaking on roads with various speeds, grades, and friction coefficients.

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Transpo Assignment 1 Midterms

The document provides details for an assignment on transportation engineering problems. It includes 4 problems to solve related to vehicle speeds, braking distances, coefficients of friction, and passing sight distances. The problems involve calculations for vehicle skidding, braking, and overtaking on roads with various speeds, grades, and friction coefficients.

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Transportation Engineering

Assignment # 1 (Midterms)

Date Given: April 17, 2024

Due Date: April 18, 2024

Problem Solving.

Solve the following problems, clearly and neatly show your


solution, and indicate properly your final answer. Express the
units properly and in 3 decimal places.

• 1. A car is travelling at 130kph locks up its wheel • 4. Determine the minimum passing sight distance
and skids up a 3% incline before crashing into a required for a passenger car travelling with an
stationary massive concrete pedestal and coming to a acceleration of 6kph/s and a speed of 100 kph to
complete stop. The skid marks leading up to the overtake a truck travelling with a speed of 80 kph on a
pedestal are 90 m long. The coefficient of friction rural two-way lane highway?
between the tires and the road is 0.35. Assuming time of initial maneuver is 4 seconds and the
a) how far would the car have skidded if it had time passing the vehicle is travelling in left is 10
not hit the pedestal? seconds.
b) what is the speed of the car at the impact?

• 2. A car travelling at 105kph applies a brake and


stopped at a distance of 105m. The coefficient of
friction between the tires and the road is 0.5. If the
perception-reaction time is 1.5 seconds, what is the
grade of the road?

• 3. A car skidded going into an intersection, struck


a pedestrian, and continued until it hit a tree. Based on
the damage to the front of the car, it is estimated that
the car was doing 10kph at the impact with the tree.
The length of the skid marks was measured at 42m. The
road is on a downhill grade of 5%.
A test car skidded 15.5 meters on the same section of
the road when braked from the speed of 45kph to a
halt.
a) what is the coefficient of friction between the
tires and the pavement?
b) what is the probable speed of the car involved
in the accident when the brakes were applied, in kph?
c) if the perception-reaction time of the driver is
1.5 sec, what could have been his minimum total
stopping distance to avoid crash?

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