A local arterial has an average flow of 1500 vph. At 8:20 AM, a school bus stopped at a local stop for 3 minutes, forcing all vehicles to stop behind it, with an average spacing of 8.0 meters. Afterwards, the bus made a right turn and left the road, allowing the traffic to be released at capacity conditions (qm = 1800 vph). Assuming that the traffic on the road follows Greenshield's model, answer the following questions: a) What is the maximum number of vehicles that will be impacted by the bus stoppage? b) At what time the queue that resulted from the stopping bus will be fully dissipated? c) What is the furthest point upstream of the stop that the queue will reach?

A local arterial has an average flow of 1500 vph. At 8:20 AM, a school bus stopped at a local stop for 3 minutes, forcing all vehicles to stop behind it, with an average spacing of 8.0 meters. Afterwards, the bus made a right turn and left the road, allowing the traffic to be released at capacity conditions (qm = 1800 vph). Assuming that the traffic on the road follows Greenshield's model, answer the following questions: a) What is the maximum number of vehicles that will be impacted by the bus stoppage? b) At what time the queue that resulted from the stopping bus will be fully dissipated? c) What is the furthest point upstream of the stop that the queue will reach?

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