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The document discusses various types of speeds related to road design, including design speed, point speed, walking speed, average spatial speed, average temporal speed, operating speed, and instantaneous speed. It emphasizes the factors influencing design speed, such as road importance, traffic volume, and topography. Additionally, it introduces the MU-meter, a device used to measure friction on road surfaces to assess vehicle skidding conditions.
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The document discusses various types of speeds related to road design, including design speed, point speed, walking speed, average spatial speed, average temporal speed, operating speed, and instantaneous speed. It emphasizes the factors influencing design speed, such as road importance, traffic volume, and topography. Additionally, it introduces the MU-meter, a device used to measure friction on road surfaces to assess vehicle skidding conditions.
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DESIGN SPEED:
Also known as project speed, it is the maximum speed allowed to
which vehicles can safely travel over a specific section of
a road, when the weather and traffic conditions are so favorable that
The geometric characteristics of the project govern the circulation. Everyone
those geometric elements of horizontal, vertical, and transversal alignment,
such as minimum radii, maximum slopes, visibility distances,
elevations, lane widths and setbacks, clear widths and heights, etc.
They depend on the speed of the project and vary with a change in it.
the selection of the project speed depends on the importance or category of
the future way, of the transit volumes that it will move, of the configuration
topography of the region, land use, and resource availability
economics.
when projecting a section of a road, it is advisable, although not always feasible,
maintain a constant value for project speed. however, the changes
drastic conditions in topographical conditions and their own limitations may force to
use different design speeds in different sections.
POINT SPEED:
It is the speed of a vehicle as it passes a certain point.
road or street. Since this speed is taken at the precise moment of the
the passage of the vehicle through the point is also called instantaneous speed.
WALKING SPEED:
For a vehicle, the cruising speed or travel speed is the result of
divide the distance traveled by the time during which the vehicle was in
movement. To obtain the walking speed on a normal trip, one
will be deducted from the total travel time, all the time that the vehicle has
would have stopped, for any reason. Therefore, this speed generally,
it will be of higher value than the route.
AVERAGE SPACE SPEED:
It is the arithmetic mean of the point speeds of all vehicles that in
At a given moment, they are found on a stretch of road or street. It is then said,
that there is a spatial distribution of point velocities.
Para un espacio o distancia, la velocidad media espacial se calcula dividiendo la
distance by the average time taken by vehicles to travel it.
AVERAGE TEMPORAL SPEED:
It is the arithmetic mean of the point speeds of all vehicles, or part of them.
of them, who pass through a specific point of a road or street during a
selected time interval. It is said then that there is a distribution
point velocity temporal.1
1 DESIGN SPEED, POINT SPEED, MARCH SPEED, AVERAGE SPATIAL SPEED,
VELOCIDAD MEDIA TEMPORAL. INGENIERÍA DE TRÁNSITO FUNDAMENTOS Y APLICACIONES.[Libro] 7ª
Edition. Chapter 9. Pages 221-231.
OPERATION SPEED:
In the geometric design of roads, the operating speed is understood as
a certain geometric element, the safe and comfortable speed at which a
an isolated vehicle would circulate through it, without conditioning the choice of speed by
part of the driver no factor related to traffic intensity, nor the
meteorology, that is, assuming a certain level of speed based on
the physical characteristics of the road and its surroundings, noticeable to the driver.
INSTANTANEOUS SPEED
It is the speed corresponding to each of the vehicles that are present.
circulating along a stretch of road at a given moment.2
MU-METER
High-performance team with automation in the coefficient registration
friction or slip resistance. In this case, the measuring equipment slides
a wheel on the pavement but with an inclination with respect to the direction of
circulation, which generates a transverse reaction force. This better represents
the skidding situation of a vehicle in curved areas or in some reaction of
braked by the users on the road.3
2OPERATION
SPEED, INSTANTANEOUS SPEED. GEOMETRIC DESIGN MANUAL OF
CARRETERAS. [Libro]. Capítulo 3. Pag.24–27.
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