Trafc ow on a four-lane (one direction) freeway can be described by the Greenshields model. Two lanes

Traffic flow on a four-lane (one direction) freeway can be described by the Greenshields model. Two lanes of the four lanes on a section of this freeway will have to be closed to undertake an emergency bridge repair that is expected to take 2 hr. The mean free speed of the highway is 60 mi/h and the jam density is 140 veh/mi/ln. If it is estimated that the demand flow on the highway during the emergency repairs is 80% of the capacity, using the deterministic approach, determine: (a) The maximum queue length that will be formed (b) The total delay (c) The number of vehicles that will be affected by the incident (d) The average individual delay

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