A two-way and two-lane roadway is heavily travelled by trucks and double semi-trailers. Therefore, the design length of a vehicle is 25 m. The design speed of the roadway is 80 km/h. Assume that the reaction time before overtaking is 0.9 seconds to estimate the following distance. The car coming from the opposite direction is travelling at 80 km/h. The safety distance with the car coming from the opposite direction after the overtaking is 60 m. Determine the overtaking distance required for a car, if the design acceleration of the car 1.5 m/s.

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A two-way and two-lane roadway is heavily travelled by trucks and double semi-trailers.
Therefore, the design length of a vehicle is 25 m. The design speed of the roadway is 80 km/h.
Assume that the reaction time before overtaking is 0.9 seconds to estimate the following distance.
The car coming from the opposite direction is travelling at 80 km/h. The safety distance with the
car coming from the opposite direction after the overtaking is 60 m. Determine the overtaking
distance required for a car, if the design acceleration of the car 1.5 m/s?.
Transcribed Image Text:A two-way and two-lane roadway is heavily travelled by trucks and double semi-trailers. Therefore, the design length of a vehicle is 25 m. The design speed of the roadway is 80 km/h. Assume that the reaction time before overtaking is 0.9 seconds to estimate the following distance. The car coming from the opposite direction is travelling at 80 km/h. The safety distance with the car coming from the opposite direction after the overtaking is 60 m. Determine the overtaking distance required for a car, if the design acceleration of the car 1.5 m/s?.
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