Highway Engineering Part 1

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1. The road connecting capitals of states is known as

National Highway

Express Highway

State Highway

Provincial highway

2. A road connecting one town with another is called a

trunk road

country road

main road

highway

3. Which one of the following tests is performed in the laboratory to determine the extent of weathering of aggregates for roadworks?

Crushing test

Abrasion test

Impact test

Soundness test

4. The measure of Stiffness of track required to produce a unit depression in the track is known as

Track modulus

Tractive force

Load capacity

Gauge

5. The roads connecting village with towns or cities are classified as

state highway

major district road

minor district road

village road

6. In concrete roads, the course which can be ommitted is

base course

subgrade

sub-base course

wearing course

7. What are the maximum value of CBR and minimum value of GI of any material, respectively?

100, 0

10, 0

50, 5

100, 20

8. For sandy soils the most common method of stabilization is

Soil lime stabilization

Mechanical stabilization

Soil cement stabilization

Soil bitumen stabilization

9. Mandatory signs are displayed on a disc having a diameter of

50 cm

30 cm

100 cm

60 cm

10. The stopping sight distance depends upon

Speed of vehicle

total reaction time of driver

Efficiency of brakes

All of the above

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11. Full amount of super-elevation on a horizontal curve is provided at the

Beginning of the transition curve

End of the transition curve

Centre of the circular curve

Centre of the transition curve

12. Reflection cracking is observed in

Bituminous overlay over cement concrete pavement

Rigid overlay over flexible pavement

Rigid pavement

Flexible pavement

13. Accidents can be avoided by adopting

interlocking

ATC system

CTC system

pilot guard system

14. A portion of the traffic way that is used by the pedestrians only is called

footpath

any of these

footway

sidewalk

15. Which of the following pavement has greater life?

Cement concrete pavements

Bituminous pavements

Gravel roads

Earth roads

16. The thickness of the road surfacing depends upon the

type of traffic

all of these

type of material

intensity of traffic

17. A road sign indicates 'No parking' is

prohibitory sign

mandatory sign

informatory sign

warning sign

18. A road sign indicates 'Keep Left' is

informatory sign

mandatory sign

warning sign

prohibitory sign

19. For a National highway, the minimum formation width is

12 m

7.5 m

9.5 m

6 m

20. A road sign indicates 'No parking' is

prohibitory sign

informatory sign

mandatory sign

warning sign

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21. A road within a town is called

carriage way

country road

trunk road

street

22. Camber in the road is provided for

Avoiding overturning

Having proper sight distance

Effective drainage

Counteracting the centrifugal force

23. With two way, two lane right angled road intersection, what are total number of potential conflict points?

14

32

7

24

24. It is a common practice to design a highway to accommodate the traffic volume corresponding to

30 th hour

15 min peak period

ADT

Peak hour

25. An access from a road to private property is known as

drive away

loop road

by pass road

fly over

26. Which one of the following methods is used in the design of rigid pavements?

Group index method

CBR method

Westergaards method

McLeod's method

27. In urban transportation planning, the 'Modal Split' is the process of which one of the following?

Seperation of traffic streams by flyovers

Segregation of fast and slow modes

Deciding the choice for a mode

Staggering of working hours

28. The convexity provided on the surface of a highway is known as

gradient

curve

camber

super elevation

29. Which of the following is not a desirable property of the subgrade soil as a highway material?

Bitumen adhesion

Stability

Good drainage

Ease of compaction

30. Radius of relative Stiffness of cement concrete pavement does not depend upon which one of the following?

Modulus of elasticity of cement concrete

Poisson's ratio of concrete

Modulus of subgrade reaction

Wheel load

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31. In earthen roads the common stabilizers used as

lime

cement

bitumen

all are correct

32. For constructing road pavements, the type of cement generally used is

Blast furnace slag cement

Low heat cement

Ordinary Portland cement

Rapid hardening cement

33. Which test is performed for quick determination of the quality of subgrade soil?

Thread

CBR

Stripping

None of these

34. For conditions obtaining in India, at which location in a cement concrete pavement will the combined stresses due to traffic wheel load and temperature have to be critically checked during design?

Corner

Corner and edge

Corner and interior

Corner, edge and interior

35. The rate of rise or fall of a road along its alignment is known as

Super elevation

Side slope

Gradient

Camber

36. The road connecting one town with another town is designated as

Village road

District road

State highway

National highway

37. CTC stands for

None of these

Critical Track Control

Centralized traffic control

Critical traffic channelizer

38. In a gravel road, the building material used is

surkhi

cement

clay

lime

39. Name the traffic survey data is plotted by means of 'Desire lines'.

Accident

Classified volume

Speed and delay

Origin and destination

40. In highway construction on superelevated curves, the rolling shall proceed from

upper edge towards the lower edge

centre towards the sides

lower edge towards the upper edge

sides towards the centre

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