While designing a rural road for the Safe Stopping sight Distance (SSD) for the designvehicle with an operating speed of 85 km/h, the design team (comprising Team leader,Design Engineer, Technician, Traffic Engineer, Surveyor and other team members) needsto consider the road segment to be an unsealed up-grade road with longitudinal slope 3%and reaction time is 2.5 s. How much safe stopping sight distance is required for that roadsection?

Traffic and Highway Engineering
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ISBN:9781305156241
Author:Garber, Nicholas J.
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Chapter3: Characteristics Of The Driver, The Pedestrian, The Bicyclist, The Vehicle, and The Road
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While designing a rural road for the Safe Stopping sight Distance (SSD) for the design
vehicle with an operating speed of 85 km/h, the design team (comprising Team leader,
Design Engineer, Technician, Traffic Engineer, Surveyor and other team members) needs
to consider the road segment to be an unsealed up-grade road with longitudinal slope 3%
and reaction time is 2.5 s. How much safe stopping sight distance is required for that road
section?

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