Traffic Engineering
Traffic Engineering
Traffic Engineering pertains to the analysis of the behavior TIME MEAN SPEED AND SPACE MEAN SPEED
of traffic and to design the facilities for the smooth, safe and
economical operation of traffic. Time mean speed is defined as the average or the
arithmetic mean speed of all the vehicles passing a
FLOW, SPEED AND DENSITY point on a highway over some specified time period.
Density is the number of vehicles per unit distance occupying Space mean speed is the harmonic mean of speed
a section of roadway at a given instant time and is usually of all the vehicles occupying a given section of a
measured in vehicles per mile or per kilometer highway over some specified time period.