TRAFFIC ENGINEERING LABORATORY

Course Uses:

     CE 340, CE 443, CE 444

Capacity (No. of Students):

         10

Location:

     Bldg. 26-245

Year Established:

         1986

Objectives:

·        Demonstration Working Area

Major Equipment:

·        Traver deaking weighbridge

·        Handy weighbridge

·        Speed measuring device

·        Timelapse camera & projector

·        Traffic counters

·        Video camera

·        Highway design & turning vehicles templates

·        Traffic controller

·        Intersection models and noise meter

Main Experiments:

·    Noise studies

·    Design problems

·    Speed studies

·    Delay studies

·    Demonstration of intersection timing

Service Facilities (inside and outside KFUPM):

·        Radar for measuring traffic speed

·        Measurement of traffic volume and axle load

·        Photologging

·        Noise measurement