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Chapter 3, Problem 49P
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The radius of the curve, degree of curvature and the length of the curve to design a horizontal curve.
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A. A curving roadway has a curve with a radius of 640 m. The superelevation has been set at 5% and
the coefficient of side friction is found to be 0.20. In addition, the traffic engineer has designed
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i. Explain whether this speed will provide a safe vehicle operation or not?
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iii. Curve length
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The station of the PVC is at:
sta 93+20
sta 95+20
sta 97+20
sta 99+20
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Create a circular curve using this data with a section of a two lane, two highway
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