Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 3

1. Traffic signs and devices should be placed within a cone of

2. In a concrete road, when the sub-grade is very poor and the road is subjected to heavy traffic, then

3. The color of lights used for visibility during fog is

4. A road gradient at which a vehicle does not require any tractive force to maintain the specific speed is called

5. Obligatory points in a road alignment are:

6. The stopping sight distance required on a down slope of a road is:

7. The drains constructed on the up slope of hillsides are known as

8. Green color of a colored light traffic signal indicates

9. Volume of traffic which is due to improvement carried out in adjacent areas is known as

10. Design capacity is also known as

11. Moving car observe method is a procedure to

12. Generally, sight distance at a curve is...

13. Yellow color of a colored light traffic signal indicates

14. Los Angeles testing machine is used for

15. The height of the parapet wall provided above the beam level is

16. The length of Arniko Highway connecting Kathmandu to Kodari is

17. The ideal shape of a transition curve is

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

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

20. The normal elevation (IS) of the driver's eye is

21. Camber is provided on

22. A wall constructed to retain the earth from slippage on the hillside of a roadway is called

23. Hauling of excavated soil is done by

24. The change in road directions is made possible by introducing

25. The distance traveled by a moving vehicle during perception and brake reaction time is known as

26. Perception and brake reaction time depend upon

27. On a hill road, the radius of the curve should not be less than

28. A road sign indicating parking for four vehicles is

29. The design speed for hill terrain of a trunk road is

30. The height of the object above the road surface for the consideration of sight distance is

31. A road within a town is called

32. The width of the road including carriage way and shoulders on both sides is known as

33. The width of the carriageway of a two-lane road without a raised curb is

34. Which of the following is not a machine used in road construction?

35. The concrete pavement is provided when the daily traffic load per lane exceeds

36. Bitumen is soluble in

37. The main element for providing effective drainage in the case of the road is

38. Widening of the roads on curves in a hilly region is done?

39. Higher values of super elevation are highly undesirable to

40. On a W.B.M. road, the roller used for rolling purposes is of weight

41. The minimum thickness of the base course should be

42. In a gravel road, the binding material used is

43. A traffic rotary is suitable where

44. The steepest gradient is

45. Mostly used road in Nepal is

46. Stopping sight distance is always

47. The minimum longitudinal gradient of the road required is:

48. Marked local depression in a surface layer arising from the wearing away of material is called

49. In side drains, the free board should remain at least

50. In the full grouted method of construction of bituminous roads, rolling is done with: