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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Highway Engineering
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Highway engineering (also known as roadway engineering and street engineering) is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods. (Source: Wikipedia)

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Highway Engineering
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1. One-way streets are generally provided in crowded cities as, these
2. According to the recommendations of Nagpur Conference, the width formation of an ideal National Highway in hard rock cutting, is
3. In soils having same values of plasticity index, if liquid limit is increased, then
4. A gradient along which the vehicle does not require any tractive effort to maintain a specified speed, is known as
5. To prevent a head-on-collision of vehicles travelling in opposite directions along four-lane roads
6. Maximum daily traffic capacity of bituminous pavements is
7. As per recommendations of I.R.C., traffic volume study is carried out for rural roads for 7 days continuously during
8. The usual width of parapet walls along Highways in hilly region, is
9. Endoscope is used to determine
10. Three points A, B and C 500 m apart on a straight road have 500 m, 505 m and 510 m as their reduced levels. The road is said to have
11. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
12. Design of horizontal curves on highways, is based on
13. Width of a rotary round should be equal to
14. The method of design of flexible pavement as recommended by IRC is
15. The recommended grade of tar for grouting purpose is
16. Tie bars in cement concrete pavements are at
17. While calculating the sight distances, the driver's eye above road surface, is assumed
18. The type of curves generally provided on highways, is
19. Camber in pavements is provided by
20. Deviation of the alignment of a trace cut may be permitted in areas involving
21. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
22. The distance travelled by revolving the wheel of a vehicle more than its circumferential movement, is known as
23. In case of a multi-lane road, overtaking is generally permitted
24. When a number of roads are meeting at a point and only one of the roads is important, then the suitable shape of rotary is
25. Indian Road Congress (I.R.C.) was founded and constituted with its head quarters at New Delhi, in