In: Civil Engineering
. In three sentences or less, explain why traffic density and speed are related.
The relationships between speed and traffic density are not difficult to observe in the real world they are relate to each other .while the effects of speed and density on flow are not quite as apparent.Under uninterrupted flow conditions, speed, density, and flow are all related by the following equation:
q = k*v
Where
q = Flow (vehicles/hour)
v = Speed (miles/hour, kilometers/hour)
k = Density (vehicles/mile, vehicles/kilometer)
Because flow is the product of speed and density, the flow is equal to zero when one or both of these terms is zero. It is also possible to deduce that the flow is maximized at some critical combination of speed and density.