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Ion, I am pretty new to this board and also, like you and plenty other people here, have joined to get motivation and help while i study for the PE. I've got two observations for you, take them for what they are worth: 1. You should realize engineers who spend their free time on an online...

Excellent, thanks for the answers fellas! This is what I like about engineering- its so practical. Well, i think some of the authors/test writers are going a bit too far when they want you to use this eqn for accident investigation type problems e.g. "if skid marks were this long and it took so...

Hey All: So the AASHTO Stopping Sight Distance eqn for us customary units is S = (1.47 * tp * v) + (v^2 / 30 * (f + G)) Something feels wrong about using the same equation to estimate the stopping distance of a Prius that you would for a semi truck. I understand that mass cancels out in the...

wow, helpful folks on this board!

Thank you both, makes perfect sense!

Hey all, First time posting here. I am a water resources guy studying for transportation breadth so some of you, broader, more enlightened civil engineers may think this is a dumb question... I thought i understood stationing until i ran across a practice problem in some material a friend...