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GATE Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning: Traffic studies: flow, speed, peak hour factor, accident study – Previous Year Questions

3 GATE previous year questions on Traffic studies: flow, speed, peak hour factor, accident study (Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q43 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The consolidated data of a spot speed study for a certain stretch of a highway is given in the table. Speed range (kmph) Number of observations ---…
  2. GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q23 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – All the vehicles that come during a particular peak hour come during a 10-minute period within this hour. The 15-minute peak hour factor for this peak…
  3. GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q33 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The travel times of three vehicles on a 2 km stretch of road are 4, 5, and 8 minutes. Assuming the speed of each vehicle to be constant in this…