30.1 - Overview
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Practice Questions
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What is traffic engineering?
💡 Hint: Consider which aspects of transportation are involved.
Define traffic stream.
💡 Hint: Think about what makes up traffic on the road.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does traffic engineering primarily focus on?
💡 Hint: Think of what traffic engineers analyze.
True or False: Macroscopic parameters study individual vehicles.
💡 Hint: Consider the definition of macroscopic.
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Challenge Problems
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Devise a strategy for urban traffic flow improvement based on historical data analysis. What factors would influence your recommendations?
💡 Hint: Reflect on how behavior and volume fluctuate throughout the day.
Using a time-space diagram, explain how it can analyze headways and density in real-world traffic scenarios.
💡 Hint: Think about how the visualization allows us to measure gaps between vehicles.
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