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Traffic Engineering CE2060 Assignment

The document contains 6 traffic engineering problems related to vision standards, sign placement, vehicle stopping distances, speed limit increases, on-ramp design, and cricket run trajectories. The problems involve calculations for letter sizes, ramp lengths, speeds, and time-space diagrams.

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Traffic Engineering CE2060 Assignment

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CE3025: Traffic Engineering Even 2024

Department of Civil Engineering IIT Madras

Assignment 3
Problem a

A driver with 20/20 vision can read a sign from 90ft.

1. Is 20/20 vision better than 20/40? Explain.


2. From how much distance can a person with the 20/50 vision read the same sign?
3. How large should be the letters so that a person with 20/60 vision can read from 90ft?

Problem b

Let a person with 20/20 vision can read 2.5cm size letters from 50m. On an expressway with a speed
limit of 100 km/h, an EXIT sign is located 100 m upstream of an exit ramp, with a letter size of 5cm.
The exit ramp has a STOP sign at the downstream end of the ramp.

a. What should be the minimum length of the ramp for a person with 20/40 vision to safely travel
in this scenario?
b. For the above scenario, what should be the size of the letters on the STOP sign?

Assume a constant deceleration of 3.5m/s² and reaction time of 2.5s.

Problem c

Two vehicles are traveling at 60 km/h in the opposite direction (approaching each other) on a two-
lane, two-way road with a gradient of 2.5%. When they are equidistant from the tree, both notice a
fallen tree across the road and both the drivers try to stop their vehicles. While the motorist going
upgrade could stop the vehicle 4 m short of the tree, the vehicle on the downgrade hit the tree. What
is the speed of the vehicle going downgrade when it hit the tree? Assume perception-reaction time of
2.5 s and coefficient of friction as 0.35.

Problem d

The existing posted speed limit on a section of highway with a superelevation rate of 0.08 is 55 km/h.,
but studies have shown that that the 85th percentile speed is 65 km/h. If the posted speed limit is to
be increased to the 85th percentile speed, list at least four possible designs with varying radius and
super elevation values.

Problem e

A driver enters an onramp to a highway at rest and accelerates at a rate 𝑎𝑎(𝑣𝑣) = 𝑘𝑘�𝑣𝑣0 − 𝑣𝑣 to merge
smoothly with the highway traffic.

a. If the vehicle travels for 12 seconds on the onramp before merging onto the highway, find the
length of the onramp and the speed of the vehicles on the highway.
b. How long should the onramp be and how long will the vehicle travel to reach the highway
speed in part a, if the onramp has an upgrade of 3%.

Note that 𝑘𝑘=0.5/sec, 𝑣𝑣0 = 36 m/s.

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CE3025: Traffic Engineering Even 2024
Department of Civil Engineering IIT Madras

Problem f

1. Draw the time-space trajectory of a batsman and the runner completing two runs in a cricket
match. Show the bowling and batting crease and the running speeds of a batsman.
2. If the batsman hits a straight drive to get two runs, but is runout while completing the second
run, plot the time-space trajectory of the batsman and the ball, clearly indicating the runout
process.

Happy Solving!

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