Civil FE/PE Exam - Transportation - Solve for Peak Hour Factor

👀Today, Cody Sims jumps on to solve an excellent civil FE/PE transportation problem dealing with calculating peak hour factor. Hit pause and see how you do it, then jump in, and let's solve it together.
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[@GiraffeMan3005]

Just a time saver thought, on the exam it's more than likely that just by looking at the time options available you can tell the sum of the first four would make for the peak hour instead of doing all of those iterative calcs. Thanks for the problem though Cody

[@Fohrenbach]

Agree that iterating is not necessary -- look at the table and see which group of 4 intervals has the highest volume and just do that one

[@oleopathic]

ncees pe hb 1.1, p. 268-269.
phf = 0.93254. thank Cody!

[@vincentaroux]

5:18 V(15) is defined as max 15-min flow rate within peak hour, not within entire duration of traffic counting event. In this case the value is the same.

[@garybrown2039]

If any of you happen to use CERM, then just know that it is on page 73 - 5.