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  • Question
  • Pick up the correct statement from the following:


  • Options
  • A. Safety fences are provided on either side of a roadway if embankments are in excess of 6 metres
  • B. Safety fences are provided on outside of the curves of radii less than 750 m if the embankments are between 3 metres and 6 metres
  • C. Guard stones are provided at 2.5 metres intervals if embankments are between 1.6 metres to 3 metres
  • D. All the above.

  • Correct Answer
  • All the above. 


  • Highway Engineering problems


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    • 1. The weaving length of a roadway is the distance

    • Options
    • A. between the channelising islands
    • B. equal to half circumference
    • C. equal to total width of adjoining radial roads
    • D. equal to diameter of rotary.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Road makers along roads from the edge of a kerb should not be less than

    • Options
    • A. 40 cm
    • B. 45 cm
    • C. 50 cm
    • D. 55 cm
    • E. 60 cm
    • Discuss
    • 3. Increase in traffic volume, due to increase in transport vehicles, is known as

    • Options
    • A. development traffic
    • B. normal traffic growth
    • C. generated traffic growth
    • D. current traffic
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 4. If C is basic capacity per lane, V is velocity in km/hour, S is stopping distance pluslength of the vehicles in metres, the formula is applicable to

    • Options
    • A. district roads
    • B. two lane roads
    • C. two lane roads in one direction
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The length of the side of warning sign boards of roads is

    • Options
    • A. 30 cm
    • B. 40 cm
    • C. 45 cm
    • D. 50 cm
    • Discuss
    • 6. The type of transition curves generally provided on hill roads, is

    • Options
    • A. circular
    • B. cubic parabola
    • C. Lemniscate
    • D. spiral.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Border Roads Organisation for hilly regions, was formed in

    • Options
    • A. 1947
    • B. 1954
    • C. 1958
    • D. 1960
    • E. 1962
    • Discuss
    • 8. The minimum ratio of the radii of two circular curves of a compound curve, is kept

    • Options
    • A. 1.25
    • B. 1.5
    • C. 1.75
    • D. 2.0
    • Discuss
    • 9. The efficiency of the brakes of a vehicle depends upon

    • Options
    • A. condition of road surface
    • B. condition of the tyres
    • C. presence of the show moisture
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. If A is the projected area of a vehicle in square metres, V is speed of the vehicles in kilometres per hour and C is a constant, then the wind resistance R to the moving vehicles, is given by

    • Options
    • A. R = CAV
    • B. R = CAV2
    • C. R = CAV3
    • D.
    • E. R = C2AV
    • Discuss


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