PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG VALENZUELA

QUIZ 1
CE 17: Principles of Transportation Engineering
SCORE
Name: ___________________________________________ Section: ____________________________
Student No.: ____________________________________ Date of Examination: _________________

A. Identification: Identify the word that best fits the description.

1. The application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design,
operations, and management of transportation facilities. (transportation engineering)
2. It is the main infrastructure arm of the Philippines responsible for the planning, design
construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and other vital infrastructures. (DPWH)
3. Component of transportation system that includes vehicle routing, scheduling, and traffic
control. (Operating Strategies)
4. It refers to the organized group applying carefully selected approaches to facilitate the
movement of people and goods within an area. (transportation management)
5. It is the most dominant transportation mode. (Highway transportation)
6. It is a functional system and essential feature in the economy and the personal lives of
people everywhere, most especially in the developed nations. (transportation system)
7. Refers to the number of vehicles that pass a point on a roadway per unit of time. (traffic
flow)
8. The length of time that elapses between the front bumpers of successive vehicles passing a
point on a roadway. (headway)
9. It is also known as the spot speed and average speed of all vehicles at a given point over
a period of time. (time mean speed)
10. It is the average distance between successive vehicles moving in a traffic stream. (spacing)

B. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.

11. A transportation engineer is responsible for decisions that affect only the construction
phase of transportation systems. (False)
12. Fleets in transportation system include vehicles, vessels, and aircrafts. (True)
13. Flow, speed and density are the three primary parameters of traffic flow. (true)
14. Traffic congestion management is a major challenge in improving the performance of
transportation systems. (True)
15. Productivity in transportation system effectiveness is determined by how fast people and
goods can travel. (False)
16. The incorporation of new technology is a challenge in both the economic and political aspects
of transportation engineering. (True)
17. Highway transportation often poses significant environmental challenges due to emissions
and land use, which are mitigated by designing cleaner vehicle technologies, optimizing
traffic flow, and improving public transport systems. (true)
18. Traffic moves people and goods from one place to another using variety of vehicles across
different infrastructure systems. (false)
19. Free-flow is the term for the condition when vehicles are traveling at or near the capacity
of a roadway. (false)
20. Speed and headway are directly proportional to each other in a traffic stream. (false)

C. Enumeration. Enumerate what is asked in the items below.

Roles of Transportation Engineer

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Performance challenges of transportation systems

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Transportation Engineering processes

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Types of Traffic Studies

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Uses of speed characteristics determined in Spot Speed Study

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D. Problem solving: Solve the following problem and provide a clean and complete solution. Use stored values and
rounding off only for the final answer. Final numerical answer should be rounded off to three (3) decimal places,
unless otherwise specified in the problem, with proper unit.

41-50. Two sets of students are collecting data at two sections A and B 220 m apart along a highway. Observation
at A shows that 5 vehicles pass that section at intervals of 8.21 sec, 9.06 sec, 10.52 sec, 11.97 sec, and
13.86 sec, respectively. If the speeds of the vehicles were 80, 72, 64, 56, and 48 kph, compute the (a)
density of traffic in vehicles per kilometer, (b) time mean speed in kph, (c) space mean speed in kph, and
(d) flow in vehicles per hour.

51-60. From the following data of a freeway surveillance, there are 5 vehicles counted for a length of 300 m, and
the following positions are observed on the two photographs taken 2 seconds apart, the distance “S” that
each vehicle travel. Compute the (a) space mean speed in kph, (b) density in veh/km, and (c) flow of
traffic in veh/hr.

Vehicles Position 1 Position 2

1 153.1 m 168.2 m

2 198.0 m 213.5 m

3 149.7 m 167.0 m

4 87.3 m 112.4 m

5 124.8 m 139.9 m

61-70. The table shows the data collected on a rural highway in Bicol during a speed study. Determine the (a)
arithmetic mean speed, (b) standard deviation, (c) median speed, and (d) mode speed

Speed Speed Speed

Car No. Car No. Car No.
(kph) (kph) (kph)
1 64.0 11 58.2 21 65.8

2 65.8 12 55.2 22 61.8

3 64.3 13 63.4 23 42.1

4 56.3 14 53.3 24 50.2

5 42.1 15 53.4 25 65.8

6 50.2 15 61.8 26 53.3

7 45.4 16 56.0 27 55.2

8 55.2 18 52.1 28 54.7

9 54.7 19 65.8 29 65.8

10 63.9 20 57.3 30 63.4