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Highway Engineering: WEEK 5 - Solutions

The document summarizes solutions to exercises involving calculations for highway engineering projects. It addresses stopping sight distance, determining the length and stationing of horizontal curves given radius and other parameters, and calculating sight distances and radii needed to accommodate different design speeds on curves. Diagrams and calculations are shown for various highway curve design scenarios.

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Highway Engineering: WEEK 5 - Solutions

The document summarizes solutions to exercises involving calculations for highway engineering projects. It addresses stopping sight distance, determining the length and stationing of horizontal curves given radius and other parameters, and calculating sight distances and radii needed to accommodate different design speeds on curves. Diagrams and calculations are shown for various highway curve design scenarios.

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HIGHWAY ENGINEERING

WEEK 5 – Solutions
Stopping Sight Distance
Exercise 1:
Exercise 2:

• Deflection angle of a 4° curve is 55°25’, PC at station


238 + 44.75 m. Find length of curve, T, and station of PT.
Solution Exercise 2:

• Deflection angle of a 4º curve is 55º25’, PC at station 238 +


44.75. Find length of curve, T, and station of PT.

• D = 4º
•  = 55º25’ = 55.417º
• D = _5729.58_ R = _5729.58_ = 1,432.4 ft
R 4
Solution Exercise 2:

• D = 4º
•  = 55.417º
• R = 1,432.4 ft
• L = 2R = 2(1,432.4 ft)(55.417º) = 1385.42ft
360 360
Solution Exercise 2:

• D = 4º
•  = 55.417º
• R = 1,432.4 ft
• L = 1385.42 ft
• T = R tan  = (1,432.4 ft) tan (55.417) = 752.30 ft
2 2
Solution Exercise 2:

Stationing goes around horizontal curve.


What is station of PT?
PC = 238 + 44.75
L = 1385.42 ft = 13 + 85.42

Station at PT = (238 + 44.75) + (13 + 85.42) = 252 + 30.17


Exercise 3:
A horizontal curve is designed with a 600 m radius. The
curve has a tangent of 125 m and the PI is at metric
station 10+000 (10 kilometers and 0 meters). Determine
the stationing of the PT
Solution Exercise 3:
Exercise 4:

A horizontal curve is designed with a 450 m radius. The


curve has a tangent of 175 m and the PI is at metric
station 9+550. Determine the stationing of the PT
Solution Exercise 4:
Exercise 5:
A flat horizontal curve on a 2-lane highway is designed with a
120 m radius, 3.6 m lanes, 25° central angle, and a 50 km/h
design speed. The stopping friction coefficient is 0.30. Assume
driver perception/reaction time is 2.5 seconds.

a) Determine the distance that must be cleared from the


centerline to provide sufficient Stopping Sight Distance.
b) What radius is required to obtain a 100 km/h design speed
(All others variables the same as in part (a) above)? What will
be the new curve length?
c) Draw a diagram with the values of your solution.
Solution Exercise 5:

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