Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 3

1. Design of horizontal and vertical alignment, super elevation, sight distance, and grades are badly affected by

2. The vehicle having the lowest equivalent p.c.u. is

3. The angle of most acute vision of a driver is a cone of

4. The ratio of peak traffic volume in vehicles per hour to capacity of a single lane of traffic gives

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

6. The distance along the road surface at which a driver may perceive objects at a specific height above the carriage way is known as

7. Camber in the road is provided for

8. The thickness of pavement may be reduced considerably by

9. In hill roads, the extra widening is generally provided

10. At highway stretches, the required overtaking sight distance can't be provided; it is necessary

11. If no super elevation is provided on the road along curves, potholes may develop at

12. Customers prefer parking of their vehicles at

13. Setback distance is the distance between

14. Which one of the following does not take load in a suspension bridge?

15. A subsidiary area in a carriageway placed so as to control the movement of traffic is known as

16. The drawback of rigid pavement is that

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

18. When an up gradient of a highway meets a downgrade, the vertical curve provided is known as

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

20. Signs should normally be mounted so that the lower edge of the sign plate is...

21. Which pavement is better for highway lighting?

22. A higher value of super elevation is highly undesirable for:

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

24. 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

25. For iron-wheeled traffic, the best suitable pavement is

26. The width of roads that can be lighted by mounting street lights on one side of the road is

27. Routine maintenance is normally done by the use of

28. A road sign indicating 'Keep Left' is

29. A traffic rotary is suitable where

30. Best road suitable for pneumatic & iron-wheeled vehicles is

31. An advantage of a traffic signal is

32. Which one is correct sequence with respect to four stages of survey in a highway alignment?

33. Camber is provided on

34. Transition curve is provided in horizontal alignment

35. Character of traffic means

36. Maximum size of aggregate used for single otta seal

37. Perception and brake reaction time depend upon

38. The loosening of a wearing surface under the action of traffic or weather, associated with the failure of the binding agent to keep the surface consolidated is called

39. A deep and big depression on a road is called

40. The California bearing Ratio (CBR) test is carried out for:

41. An undesirable element to be avoided while fixing the alignment of a highway is

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

43. Which of the following is not true about highway drainage?

44. The initial application of a binder to an absorbent highway surface, prior to the construction of a wearing coat is called

45. During construction of the road subgrade contains

46. Sub-base coarse is provided not to improve

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

48. Water absorption of the aggregates used for road marking should not exceed

49. A circumferential road, built around an urban area to enable free flow of traffic is called

50. Floating gradients are provided