Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 2

1. A road sign indicating 'No Parking' is

2. The layer that is directly coming in contact with the traffic is

3. The desirable property of road stone is

4. Fixed delay is found in roads due to

5. When the degree of a road curve is defined by taking an arc of 30 m length, the radius of 1┬░ curve would be

6. Camber is provided to the road surface in the transverse direction to:

7. The inventor of road making as a building science was:

8. Traffic volume is equal to

9. The steepest gradient is

10. A road will have certain weak areas where the problems repeatedly occur. Such spots are known as:

11. The end supports of a bridge are called

12. Intensity of traffic is expressed in terms of

13. Longitudinal ruts are formed because of

14. The total reaction time for an average driver for a normal situation is

15. Excessive camber on pavement may cause

16. On the pavement with parabolic camber, the angle of inclination of vehicles will be

17. A traffic rotary is suitable where

18. A traffic junction so designed that all traffic streams are divided and unobstructed to pass over and under each other is:

19. The following types of pavement are generally known as flexible pavement:

20. The pressure intensity at the sub-grade should be...bearing capacity

21. The value of super elevation is more when:

22. Design of flexible pavements is based on

23. Patching should be done just:

24. In water-bound macadam road, the binding material used is

25. The life of a cement concrete road is taken as

26. The economic survey of a proposed road project includes a detailed survey of

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

28. The thickness of the road surfacing depends upon the

29. If the cross slope of a country is up to 10%, the terrain is classified as

30. At the horizontal curve, the outer edge of the pavement is raised with respect to the inner edge to counteract the effect of centrifugal force, is known as