Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola

Department of Civil Engineering

Course: Introduction to Transportation Engineering
Semester 2019-0
Due date: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019.

Homework #1
Working in max of 4 people, answer the questions show below. I encourage students use
Excel for solving these problems.

Topics: Traffic Concepts

✓ Traffic volume counts, and speed data were collected for one avenue located in the downtown
Lima. Traffic volume were collected in the morning, afternoon and evening, total count of 10
hours. In addition, sensors were installed in another roadway, collecting data from 365 days.
The data is in the Excel File: “Volume, Speed and Hourly Volume”.

1. (5 points) Based on the 365 days count data, determine:

• Design hour volume (DHV)
• Draw a graph: hours vs. hourly traffic volume, indicating in the graph the DHV.
• Explain how you determine the DHV.

2. (5 points) Using the 10-hour volume count determine:

• The peak hour factor (PHF) at morning, at afternoon and at evening.
• D – Directional factor
• PT - Percentage of trucks
• PB – Percentage of buses

3. (5 points) Using the Speed data determine:

• Determine the space mean speed (SMS) and time mean speed (TMS) for each direction.
• If the legal speed is 45kph, what you can say regarding to the operation of this
roadway.
• What would be the new speed limit based on this speed study. Explain.
• Find the descriptive statistics of the data and create a histogram and a percentile graph.

4. (5 points) From your speed data, assume that the maximum speed you have obtained is the
“Free Flow Speed”, with this speed and table 01 you can obtain the qm for the facility.
Draw the diagrams Flow-Density-Speed for this roadway section.
 Table 01: Speed vs Capacity

Speed Capacity
(km/hour) Vehicles/hour/lane
30 1550
35 1600
40 1650
45 1675
50 1700
55 1725
60 1750
65 1775
70 1800
75 1825
80 1850
85 1875
90 1900

Note: The above values are not analytical or experimentally derived.