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Appendix I
Design Prompt
Traffic Signal Simulator
AI.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
For the next two hours, you will be tasked with designing a trac ow simulation program.
Your client for this project is Professor E, who teaches civil engineering at UCI. One of
the courses she teaches has a section on trac signal timing, and according to her, this is
a particularly challenging subject for her students. In short, trac signal timing involves
determining the amount of time that each of an intersection’s trac lights spend being
green, yellow, and red, in order to allow cars in to ow through the intersection from each ...