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Spot Speed
Spot Speed
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Spot Speed is the average speed of vehicles passing a point, or the time mean
speed. Spot Speed studies are conducted to estimate the distribution of speeds of
vehicles in a stream of traffic at a particular location on a highway. Carried out by
recording the speeds of a sample of vehicles at a specified location.
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Speed is an important measure of the quality of travel and safety of road network.
Speed by definition is the rate of movement of vehicle in distance per unit time. A
typical unit of speed is kilometers per hour (kph) or miles per hour (mph). Basically,
there are two types of speed: the time-mean speed and the space-mean speed.
Space-mean speed is the length of a road section divided by the average travel
time of several vehicles over this specific section. The time-mean speed (spot
speed) is the average spot speed of several vehicles measured at a given spot.
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The Vehicle Spot Speed Study is designed to measure the speed characteristics at a
specified location under the traffic and environmental conditions prevailing at the
time of
the study. Spot speed data are used in many traffic engineering activities such as
determining traffic signal timing, roadway capacity, evaluating the effectiveness of
improvements, and installing speed zones. Vehicle speed is determined using
automated methods such as radar or laser speed detection.
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