- Because of a minor collision, one of the two SB lanes on a freeway is blocked at 8:13am. The normal freeway capacity of 3600 vph is reduced to 1340 vph. The SB flow rate at this time of day is 2715 vph. The blockage is removed after 15 minutes.

- Because of a minor collision, one of the two SB lanes on a freeway is blocked at 8:13am. The normal freeway capacity of 3600 vph is reduced to 1340 vph. The SB flow rate at this time of day is 2715 vph. The blockage is removed after 15 minutes.

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Because of a minor collision, one of the two SB
lanes on a freeway is blocked at 8:13am. The
normal freeway capacity of 3600 vph is reduced
to 1340 vph. The SB flow rate at this time of day
is 2715 vph. The blockage is removed after 15
minutes.
- Find the maximum queue length
Maximum time spent in queue
-
-
- Time of queue dissipation
- Total delay
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