Highway Engineering Questions

• If the velocity of moving vehicles on a road is 24 km/per hour, stopping distance is 19 metres and average length of vehicles is 6 metres, the basic capacity of lane, is
• The correct formula for calculating superelevation for the hill roads, is
• Parapet walls along hill roads, are provided
• Speed regulations on roads is decided on the basis of
• In case of a multi-lane road, overtaking is generally permitted
• Newly constructed pavement with ordinary Portland cement attains its working strength after
• A gradient along which the vehicle does not require any tractive effort to maintain a specified speed, is known as
• Intermediate catch water drains are provided only, if
• If the coefficient of friction on the road surface is 0.15 and a maximum super-elevation 1 in 15 is provided, the maximum speed of the vehicles on a curve of 100 metre radius, is
• When an up gradient of a highway meets a downgrade, the vertical curve provided, is known as
• Minimum thickness of the base of a flexible pavement, is
• The desirable camber for straight roads with thin bituminous surfacing, is
• An Executive Engineer of roads, executes works under direct control of
• Normal formation width of a hill road for one-way traffic, is
• Raising of outer edge of a road with respect to inner edge, is known
• From the point of tangency before an intersection, the route markers are fixed at a distance of
• If V is the design speed in km/hour and R is the radius of the curve of a hill road, the super-elevation
• The inventor of road making as a building science, was
• The wall constructed for the stability of a back filling portion of a road on the down hill side, is known as
• The most commonly adopted method to provide super-elevation on roads, is by pivoting the road surface about