GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 Shift 1 Solved Paper

Traffic volume count has been collected on a 2-lane road section which needs upgradation due to severe traffic flow condition. Maximum service flow rate per lane is observed as 1280 veh/h at level of service "C". The Peak Hour Factor is reported as $0.78125$. Historical traffic volume count provides Annual Average Daily Traffic as 12270 veh/day. Directional split of the traffic flow is observed to be $60:40$. Assuming that traffic stream consists of "All Cars" and all drivers are 'Regular Commuters', the number of extra lane(s) (round off to the next higher integer) to be provided, is