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by takk309 7y ago
It really depends on the agency building the roundabout and the property values at the intersection. For example a rural intersect near me just got a single lane roundabout and it cost $3.2 million. The agency building it prefer a lot of co
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by takk309 7y ago
I may be being a bit of a pedant but do you mean roundabout? Traffic circles and roundabouts are different. A traffic circle, in the modern sense, does not have much horizontal deflection on the entering legs. The diameter is also smaller a
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by takk309 7y ago
I had an HP 48g for some time and I loved the feeling of the buttons. It did take a long while to get used to the reverse polish notation. Sadly that calculator died on me. I still use an app on my phone as the go to calculator.
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by takk309 7y ago
I still have and use my TI-84+ that I purchased when I started college. As a professional I use it here and there but rarely for anything that actually needs more than a basic scientific calculator. During college (civil engineering) I used
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by takk309 7y ago
Living in a giant state with just over a million people definitely changes one's perspective on city versus town.
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by takk309 7y ago
That is a very good point that I had never though about. I wonder what sort of contingencies exist in the contracts for those engineers?
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by takk309 7y ago
If any one is interested in a diving into queuing theory as it pertains to vehicular traffic, check out chapters 11 and 12 of Traffic Flow Fundamentals by Adolf May. [1] Chapter 11 discusses shockwaves and moving queues. Chapter 12 discusse
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by takk309 7y ago
I have two Civil Engineering degrees (BS and MS) and have been working in the field for some time now and I think the opposite, CE should be a minimum 5 year program. The people I see as fresh undergraduates do not know enough to do the job
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by takk309 7y ago
Based on the title of the article I was expecting the stores to passively collect data based on the MAC address. I guess I was way wrong. I am a traffic engineer and we use passive BT MAC address scanners to sort out origin/destination
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by takk309 7y ago
Don't tell the airlines, they will start charging more for those seats!
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by takk309 7y ago
Check out Lost Art Press ( https://lostartpress.com/ ) They focus mostly on traditional hand tool wood working. The Anarchist's Tool Chest ( https://lostartpress.com/collections/getting-started/p
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by takk309 7y ago
Not even on a rough landing, just banking maneuvers on take off and landing. The prevailing winds and local mountains at my local airport require a banked turn of some sort for almost every flight. I can usually feel the banking in a typica
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by takk309 7y ago
True, but he did use a rope to rehearse the route a large number of times. He knew he was physically capable of free soloing the route because of the confidence he was able to gain as a direct result of using the technology available to him
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by takk309 7y ago
That reminds me of my elementary play ground. We had lots of wood structures and wood chips to "soften" a fall. Those wood chips were brutal when they would freeze together in the winter!
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by takk309 7y ago
Growing up I had the opposite experience. I grew up in a mountain valley in Montana and would go to Minnesota each summer. It was strange not having something on the horizon.
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by takk309 7y ago
I have, thankfully, never had to try to tie a prusik with my hands covered in blood. If you had to do that, it sounds like a brutal fall.
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by takk309 7y ago
I seem to remember a similar sticker on an E-machines PC that I had as a kid in the mid 90's.
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by takk309 7y ago
Many climbers keep a loop of accessory cord with them to make a prusik knot for this reason. Much lighter and cheaper than an ascender but not as efficient.
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by takk309 7y ago
This is less of a risk in a climbing harness due to the location of the tie in point. With the point in front of you at your waist, it is possible to shift your legs around even when free hanging. Think about doing a rappel on a long free h
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by takk309 7y ago
Try getting a prusik system set up when your tie in point is in the middle of your back as most construction harnesses are set up. It makes it much harder to self rescue. Side note, one of my favorite ways to get up a rope when hanging in f
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by takk309 7y ago
I big difference between a climbing harness and a construction harness is the tie in point. Climbing it is fine to have that point in front of the user. For construction, having the rope constantly in front of you would be a real inconvenie
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by takk309 8y ago
If you do play around with it, make sure to take a look at the examples that are included in the installation. They can be found under the Help menu.
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by takk309 8y ago
Yes, Vissim is expensive. It is professional software for a niche market. I don't know the exact cost we pay off the top of my head but it is in the multiple thousands a year for a single seat network license.
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by takk309 8y ago
Yes, you can change any part of driving behavior you want. Vissim is robust enough that you can even program your own driving behavior if you are so inclined. I have even seen demonstration of hardware-in-the-loop simulations with real auto
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by takk309 8y ago
This is a neat toy simulation. I do enjoy the depth of the drivers' behavior. I am a traffic engineer and traffic simulation is a large portion of my job. Professionally I use PTV Vissim. [1] It allows me to build just about any road n
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by takk309 8y ago
In the US we call this ramp metering. It is usually a dynamic system that monitors the upstream traffic density and only allows as many vehicles as can be added to reach a maximum density. We usually allow only 1 car per green signal. There
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by takk309 8y ago
Traffic engineer here. The purpose of the landscaping in the center island of a roundabout is to block the view across the roundabout and to stop people from driving directly over the central island. The purpose to blocking the view is to m
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by takk309 8y ago
In a sense this sort of adaptive throttling does exist in traffic flow via ramp metering. Upstream sensors detect the traffic density and the signal at the ramp is adjusted to allow only enough traffic to bring the freeway up to capacity.
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by takk309 8y ago
Don't forget the usage tax we all pay for the highways via the Federal fuel tax. But I suppose that is not directly considered revenue.
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by takk309 8y ago
You are not the only one that believes that the auto industry worked to change urban transportation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

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