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A traffic engineer needs to determine the AADT on a rural primary road that has the...

A traffic engineer needs to determine the AADT on a rural primary road that has the volume distribution characteristics shown in the following tables. He collected the following data on a Wednesday during the month of August. What is the estimated AADT of the road using following information (Traffic volume, HEF, DEF, and MEF factors)? (6.5 points)?

Time

Traffic Volume (veh/hr)

8 to 9 am

450

9 to 10 am

550

10 to 11 am

600

11 am to 12 pm

750

Time of Day

HEF

6 to 7 am

42.00

7 to 8 am

29.00

8 to 9 am

22.05

9 to 10 am

18.80

10 to 11 am

17.10

11 am to 12 pm

18.52

12 to 1 pm

18.71

1 to 2 pm

16.71

2 to 3 pm

14.84

3 to 4 pm

14.77

4 to 5 pm

12.85

5 to 6 pm

13.85

Day of Week

DEF

Saturday

0.930

Sunday

1.359

Monday

1.002

Tuesday

1.104

Wednesday

0.940

Thursday

1.002

Friday

0.818

Month

MEF

January

1.756

February

1.975

March

1.635

April

1.481

May

1.394

June

0.948

July

0.578

August

0.521

September

0.632

October

0.948

November

1.185

December

1.354


A 1150 veh/day

B 5438 veh/day

C 5590 veh/day

D 7250 veh/day

E None of the above

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