Highway Engineering problems
- 1. Round-abouts are not suitable if number of vehicles exceed
Options- A. 3000
- B. 4000
- C. 5000
- D. 6000 Discuss
Correct Answer: 3000
- 2. For a comfortable travel on Highways, the centrifugal ratio should not exceed
Options- A. 0.10
- B. 0.15
- C. 0.20
- D. 0.25
- E. 0.30 Discuss
Correct Answer: 0.25
- 3. The width formation of a road means the width of
Options- A. carriageway
- B. pavement and shoulders
- C. embankment at ground level
- D. embankment at the top level. Discuss
Correct Answer: embankment at the top level.
- 4. An exceptional grade may be provided upto 1 in 12 along hill roads, if the length does not exceed
Options- A. 45 m per km
- B. 60 m per km
- C. 75 m per km
- D. 90 m per km
- E. 100 m per km Discuss
Correct Answer: 60 m per km
- 5. 1.R.T.D.A. (Indian Roads and Transport Development Association) was set up at Bombay in
Options- A. 1907
- B. 1917
- C. 1927
- D. 1937
- E. 1942 Discuss
Correct Answer: 1927
- 6. The traffic manoeuvre means
Options- A. diverging
- B. merging
- C. crossing
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
- 7. To compensate the loss of tractive force of vehicles along curves of radius R, the percentage reduction of gradient, is
Options- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
- E.
Discuss
Correct Answer:
- 8. For clear distinct vision, images of obstructions should fall on the retina with a cone of
Options- A. 2°
- B. 3°
- C. 4°
- D. 5°
- E. 6° Discuss
Correct Answer: 5°
- 9. Following type of pavement is generally known as flexible pavement
Options- A. water-bound macadam roads
- B. stabilised soil roads
- C. road constructed with various layers of building material well compacted
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
- 10. Volume of traffic which is due to improvement carried out in adjacent area, is known as
Options- A. development traffic
- B. generated traffic growth
- C. normal traffic growth
- D. current traffic. Discuss
Correct Answer: development traffic
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