Data obtained from aerial photography showed nine vehicles on a 720 ft-long section of road. Traffic data collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4.2 sec (a) the density on the highway (in veh/mi) veh/mi (b) the flow on the road (in veh/h) veh/h (c) the space mean speed (in mi/h) mi/h
Data obtained from aerial photography showed nine vehicles on a 720 ft-long section of road. Traffic data collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4.2 sec (a) the density on the highway (in veh/mi) veh/mi (b) the flow on the road (in veh/h) veh/h (c) the space mean speed (in mi/h) mi/h
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Data obtained from aerial photography showed nine vehicles on a 720 ft-long section of road. Traffic data collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4.2 sec. Determine the following.
(a)
the density on the highway (in veh/mi)
veh/mi
(b)
the flow on the road (in veh/h)
veh/h
(c)
the space mean speed (in mi/h)
mi/h
![Data obtained from aerial photography showed nine vehicles on a 720 ft-long section of road. Traffic data collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4.2 sec. Determine the following.
(a) the density on the highway (in veh/mi)
veh/mi
(b) the flow on the road (in veh/h)
veh/h
(c) the space mean speed (in mi/h)
mi/h](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F98ba27a3-ab69-49b1-ad1c-2aa6f8226754%2F5d5419b2-89a7-40f9-b766-49c891dc2e0a%2Fun54cq_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Data obtained from aerial photography showed nine vehicles on a 720 ft-long section of road. Traffic data collected at the same time indicated an average time headway of 4.2 sec. Determine the following.
(a) the density on the highway (in veh/mi)
veh/mi
(b) the flow on the road (in veh/h)
veh/h
(c) the space mean speed (in mi/h)
mi/h
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