Highway Engineering Questions

• A district road with a bituminous pavement has a horizontal curve of 1000 m for a design speed of 75 km ph. The super-elevation is
• Traffic engineering only includes
• Deviation of the alignment of a trace cut may be permitted in areas involving
• The minimum value of camber provided for thin bituminous surface hill roads, is
• The formula for calculating the depth of concrete pavements suggested by Goldbeck, is
• Design of horizontal and vertical alignments, super-elevation, sight distance and grades, is worst affected by
• The usual width of parapet walls along Highways in hilly region, is
• Width of vehicles affects the width of
• In water bound macadam roads, binding material, is
• If R is the radius of a main curve and L is the length of the transition curve, the shift of the curve, is
• Traffic surveys are carried out
• On the recommendations of Indian Road Congress, the ruling gradient in plains, is
• Maximum number of passenger cars that can pass a given point on a road during one hour under the most ideal road way and traffic conditions, is known as
• The total length of a valley formed by two gradients - 3% and + 2% curve between the two tangent points to provide a rate of change of centrifugal acceleration 0.6 m/sec2, for a design speed 100 km ph, is
• Volume of traffic which would immediately use a new road or an improved one when opened to traffic, is known
• If N is deviation angle the length L of a parabolic vetical curve for overtaking sight distance S, is
• The maximum safe speed on roads, depends on the
• The head light of vehicles should be such that its lower beam illuminates objects at
• According to the recommendations of Nagpur Conference, the width formation of an ideal National Highway in hard rock cutting, is
• For the movement of vehicles at an intersection of two roads, without any interference, the type of grade separator generally preferred to, is