Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 3

1. If the velocity of a moving vehicle on a road is v kmph, s is stopping distance plus the average length of the vehicle in meters, then the basic capacity of a lane is given by

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

3. Sub-surface drainage of a road means removal of rainwater from

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

5. Rotaries are not suitable if the number of vehicles exceeds (As per AASHO)

6. In bituminous macadam road, the binding material used is

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

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

9. The minimum thickness of the base course should be

10. Mostly used road in Nepal is

11. Maximum thickness of otta seal is

12. Ratio of the width of the car parking area required at the kerb for 30┬░ parking relative to 60┬░ parking is approximately

13. Customers prefer parking of their vehicles at

14. A pavement is classified as flexible or rigid pavement based on its

15. The ideal shape of a transition curve is

16. Perception and brake reaction time depend upon

17. The most efficient traffic signal system is

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

19. If the difference of an edge of the pavement (18m wide) and its crown is 30 cm, then the camber in the pavement is

20. Design of flexible pavements involves,

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

22. The drawback of rigid pavement is that

23. Intensity of traffic for bituminous carpet roads is

24. An advantage of a one-way traffic system is that

25. Traffic density depends upon the

26. The steepest gradient in ordinary condition should not exceed

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

28. Bleeding may be reduced by

29. In order to reduce the danger of floods, the height of a road embankment should be

30. To transfer wheel load at expansion joints from one slab to the other

31. On the approach, the horizontal curves in order to

32. Pensky-Marten's apparatus is used for the determination of

33. While negotiating a curve

34. The example of rigid pavement is

35. The city roads which are meant for through traffic usually on a continuous route are known as

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

37. The percentage reduction of gradient for compensating the loss of tractive force of a vehicle along a radius R is

38. Waves and corrugation may be formed because of

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

40. The convexity provided to the carriageway between the crown and edge of pavement is called

41. Moving car observe method is a procedure to

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

43. The overall length of the vehicle affects the

44. The effect of gradient on safe overtaking sight distance is

45. The steepest gradient is

46. Minimum super elevation provided is

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

48. The advantage of a rotary is

49. Any gradient on a road is said to be an exceptional gradient if it is

50. 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