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Civil Engineering (Transportation)/ Transportation Engineering Practice Test Questions
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Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods transport. (Source: Wikipedia)

Transportation engineering is also a part of Urban planning.

Civil Engineering (Transportation)/ Transportation Engineering Practice Test Questions
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1. If the Number of Sleepers per rail length for Broad Gauge Wooden Track is 20, then Sleeper Density is:
2. Forces acting on the Rail of the Track are:
3. Subsurface Drainage for an airport is required:
4. The minimum visibility distance along a major road at priority intersection of a rural highway with Design Speed of major road as 100 K.P.H. is:
5. The direction of runway or runways at an airport can be determined through vector analysis on a:
6. Calculate the length of Summit Curve for a stopping sight distance of 180 m on a National Highway at the junction of an upward gradient of 1 percent and a downward gradient of 2 percent. Assume height of eye of driver to be 1.2 m and height of object above the roadway to be 0.15 m. Assume also S is less than L.
7. A Warner Railway Signal is different from Semaphore Signal because it has:
8. The Origin and Destination studies give the idea of the number of vehicular traffic , their origin and ______________ in each zone of study.
9. The Super Elevation for a 7.5 m wide road, on a 250 m radius curve, for permissible speed of 80 kmph, with Coefficient of lateral friction of 0.15, is:
10. If a rail track is laid on wooden sleeper with sleeper density of 20, with spacing between two sleepers is 65 cm, and sleeper width of 25 cm, then what is minimum depth of Ballast Cushion:
11. The traffic signs normally should be placed at ____________ to the line of travel of the approaching traffic.
12. Right of Way for a road is:
13. When a vehicle travelling on a straight road enters a curve of finite radius it causes shock and sway. In order to avoid this it is customary to provide at the end of the straight:
14. FAA recommends that runways be oriented so that aircraft may be landed at least ____________ of the time with allowable crosswind component not exceeding specified limits based upon the airport reference codes:
15. While selecting the site for a Railway Station the following point should be kept in mind: