Highway Engineering Questions

• Design of highways is based on
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• Which one of the following transportation systems is not used for the conveyance of passengers in India?
• For the design of cement concrete pavement for corner loading, Indian Road Congress recommends the use of
• To prevent movement of moisture from subgrade to road pavement on embankments about 0.6 m to 1 m higher than water table, the thickness of cut off layer of coarse sand used, is
• The distance travelled by a moving vehicle during perception and brake reaction times, is known as
• On a pavement with parabolic camber, the angle of inclination of the vehicles will be
• Minimum radius of a simple circular curve deflecting through 5°, is
• Degree of a road curve is defined as the angle in degrees subtended at the centre by an arc of
• If the designed speed on a circular curve of radius 1400 m is 80 km/hour, no superelevation is provided, if the camber, is
• If V is speed in km/hour and R is radius of the curve, the superelevation e is equal to
• For a poorly graded sub-grade soil, thickness of sub-base, is
• If N is deviation angle, the length L, of a parabolic vertical curve for safe stopping distance S, is
• Longitudinal pavement lines marked broken in white paint
• In scanty rainfall regions, the camber provided will be
• Roughness index of roads, is expressed as
• On most smooth hard surfaced roads, rolling resistance to moving vehicles, ranges from
• Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. The width of the right-of-way is decided so as to accommodate
• The safe stopping sight distance D, may be computed from the equation
• The type of curves generally provided on highways, is