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Traffic Engineering Practice Test: Fundamental Principle of Traffic Flow
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Fundamental Principle of Traffic Flow topics include: Traffic flow element, flow density relationships, traffic streams, gap and gap acceptance.
 

Traffic Engineering Practice Test: Fundamental Principle of Traffic Flow
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25 Questions

1. The macroscopic approach considers which of the following factor?
2. Which of the following cannot be determined by the microscopic model?
3. Which of the following is the parameter of traffic stream that has microscopic characteristics?
4. Greenberg model uses which analogy?
5. The harmonic mean of the speeds of vehicles passing a point on a roadway during an interval of time is known as ______
6. What is gap acceptance?
7. Which of the following is determined by gap acceptance?
8. The Greenberg model is used for which type of traffic condition?
9. The number of vehicles travelling over a unit length of highway at an instant in time is ________
10. Which of the following is a model that is commonly used by the macroscopic approach?
11. The time-mean speed is always less than space-mean speed.
12. The Microscopic approach does not consider which of the following factor?
13. Which of the following equation can be used to determine the expected number of adequate gaps that will take place at an unsignalized intersection or at the merging area of an expressway?
14. When does the Greenshields model satisfy the boundary condition?
15. Time-space diagram is a graph that describes the relationships between time of the vehicle as it progress in the highway and ______
16. With respect to the shape of the flow-density curve, when the density reaches maximum the flow must be ______
17. Which of the following equations shows the correct relationship between flow, density, and space mean speed?
18. Which of the following is not a parameter of traffic stream?
19. Which of the following is not an application of traffic flow theory?
20. The slope of time-space diagram is ______
21. How many primary traffic flow elements are there?
22. What is the unit of time headway?
23. On which of the following factor does mean free speed depend on??
24. On which of the following factors are flow, density, and space mean speed are not dependent?
25. Flow can be determined by which for the following mathematical formula?