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GATE Urban Land Use and Transportation: Traffic survey methods, Traffic flow Analysis – Previous Year Questions

10 GATE previous year questions on Traffic survey methods, Traffic flow Analysis (Urban Land Use and Transportation, Architecture and Planning) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 AR — Planning Q55 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Ten vehicle spot speeds in km/h are 45, 35, 25, 51, 45, 38, 61, 42, 47, 49. Find time-mean speed in km/h to one decimal.
  2. GATE 2022 AR — Planning Q63 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Traffic counts in successive 15-minute intervals from 08:00 to 10:00 are 212, 248, 272, 315, 337, 405, 320, 267 PCU. Find Peak Hour Factor for the…
  3. GATE 2024 AR — Planning Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – An enoscope in a traffic survey measures which quantity?
  4. GATE 2024 AR — Planning Q53 (1 mark, Multiple select) – For the speed-density diagram, which statements are correct?
  5. GATE 2024 AR — Planning Q60 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which traffic-survey methods measure running and journey speeds?
  6. GATE 2024 AR — Planning Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A one-way single-lane traffic stream has average time headway 2.5 s. Find hourly flow, as an integer.
  7. GATE 2024 AR — Architecture Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – An enoscope in a traffic survey measures which quantity?
  8. GATE 2025 AR — Planning Q63 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Eight spot speeds are 42, 52, 56, X, 53, 62, 65, 48 km/hour. Time-mean speed is 56.25 km/hour. Determine X and give space-mean speed in km/hour, to…
  9. GATE 2026 AR — Planning Q55 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A Greenshields speed-density model is v=75−0.03k, with v in km/hour and k in vehicles/km. Find jam density in vehicles/km, as an integer.
  10. GATE 2026 AR — Planning Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Peak-hour traffic on a two-lane one-way collector has(count, PCU) pairs: bus(52, 2.50), truck(24, 3.00), car(720, 1.00), motorised two-wheeler(1050,…