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    The document provides calculations to determine the minimum passing sight distance (PSD) required for two scenarios: 1) A passenger car travelling at 100 kph needs to overtake a truck going 80 kph on a rural two-lane highway. The required PSD is calculated to be 625.6 meters. 2) A traffic engineer studied a rural two-lane road and found the average passing vehicle speed was 47 mph and acceleration was 11.4 ft/sec2, while slow vehicles averaged 40 mph. The required PSD for these conditions is then calculated.

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    The document provides calculations to determine the minimum passing sight distance (PSD) required for two scenarios: 1) A passenger car travelling at 100 kph needs to overtake a truck going 80 kph on a rural two-lane highway. The required PSD is calculated to be 625.6 meters. 2) A traffic engineer studied a rural two-lane road and found the average passing vehicle speed was 47 mph and acceleration was 11.4 ft/sec2, while slow vehicles averaged 40 mph. The required PSD for these conditions is then calculated.

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    The document provides calculations to determine the minimum passing sight distance (PSD) required for two scenarios: 1) A passenger car travelling at 100 kph needs to overtake a truck going 80 kph on a rural two-lane highway. The required PSD is calculated to be 625.6 meters. 2) A traffic engineer studied a rural two-lane road and found the average passing vehicle speed was 47 mph and acceleration was 11.4 ft/sec2, while slow vehicles averaged 40 mph. The required PSD for these conditions is then calculated.

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    Determine the minimum passing sight distance required for a passenger car

    travelling with an acceleration of 6 kphps and a speed of 100 kph to


    overtake a truck travelling with a speed of 80 kph on a rural two-way two-
    lane highway? Assuming time of initial maneuver 4 sec and time passing
    vehicle is traveling in left time 10 sec.

    Solution:-

    m = 100 – 80 = 20 kph
    at 1
    d1 = 0.278t(v-m+ 2 ¿

    (6) (4 )
    (
    d1 = 0.278 ( 4 ) 100−20+
    2 ) =102.3 m

    d2 = 0.278vt2

    d2 = 0.278(100)(10) = 278m

    d3 = 60m since , it varies between (30 – 90 )m


    2
    d4 =( 3 ¿ d 2

    2
    d4 =( 3 ¿ ( 278 )=185.3

    PSD = d1 +d2 +d3 +d4

    PSD = 102.3 +278 +60+185.3

    PSD =625.6 m

    So that , the passenger car need about 625.6 m to overtake


    Calculate the minimum passing sight distance required for a two-lane rural
    roadway? The local traffic engineer conducted a speed study of the subject
    road and found the following: average speed of the passing vehicle was 47
    mi/h with an average acceleration of 11.4 ft/sec2, and the average speed of
    slow vehicles was 40 mi/h. Assume P-R-Time =2 sec, passing time 5sec

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