1. Assume you are observing traffic in a single lane of a highway at a specific location. You measure the average headway and average spacing of passing vehicles as 3 seconds and 150ft, respectively. What is the average speed of the traffic stream? Note: you can use two methods to conduct the calculation. 2. Assume the speed and density at a freeway location follows a linear relationship. You observe traffic flow rate of 2250 vehicles/hour at 45 mph and 3000 vehicles/hour at 30 mph. What are the jam density, free flow speed (max speed), and capacity of this freeway location? How about the density and speed (i.e., the critical density and the critical speed) at the capacity?

1. Assume you are observing traffic in a single lane of a highway at a specific location. You measure the average headway and average spacing of passing vehicles as 3 seconds and 150ft, respectively. What is the average speed of the traffic stream? Note: you can use two methods to conduct the calculation. 2. Assume the speed and density at a freeway location follows a linear relationship. You observe traffic flow rate of 2250 vehicles/hour at 45 mph and 3000 vehicles/hour at 30 mph. What are the jam density, free flow speed (max speed), and capacity of this freeway location? How about the density and speed (i.e., the critical density and the critical speed) at the capacity?

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