SCHOOL OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

CE-444: TRAFFIC ENGINEERING & SAFETY
HOMEWORK 3
Assigned on April 21st, 2017
Due on April 28th, 2017

Problem 1 (10 points) A freeway section is being planned in an urban area with a driver
population composed mostly of daily commuters. The freeway corridor will be built in
level terrain. Transportation planners estimate that 4500 vehicles per hour with 10 %
trucks will be using the freeway section in the peak direction. The peak hour factor is
assumed to be 0.88 and there are no buses or recreational vehicles in the traffic flow.
Determine the minimum number of lanes necessary to ensure at least LOS C.

Problem 2 (10 points) Vehicles leave an airport parking facility (arrive at parking fee
collection booths) at a rate of 500 veh/h (the time between arrivals is exponentially
distributed). The parking facility has a policy that the average time a patron spends in a
queue while waiting to pay for parking is not to exceed 5 seconds. If the time required to
pay for parking is exponentially distributed with a mean of 15 seconds:
What is the fewest number of payment processing booths that must be open to keep the
average time spent in a queue less than 5 seconds.