1. What is traffic density & traffic volume?
2. What is width of single lane highway?
3. Difference between road and highway?
4. How important is proper drainage for highway?
5. Classification of highway?
6. What is rutting?
7. What is shoulder? What is difference between shoulder and footpath?
8. Difference between express ways and highway.
9. What is super-elevation? Where it is provided?
10. Where we use flexible and where be use rigid pavement and why?
11. How the subgrade layer of flexible pavements prepared?
12. What is Sight Distance?
13. What are the preliminary steps in highway design?
14. Which binder is recommended for the wet and cold climate?
15. Why minimum void are required for a bituminous mix?
16. What is the criteria for designing the sag vertical curve?
17. What is the use of base course in rigid pavement?
18. Why is it important for a highway engineer to study the behaviour of soil?
19. What are the various types of traffic markings commonly used? What are the uses of
each?
20. What are the various causes of traffic accidents? Discuss the method of analyzing the
speed of vehicle involved in the accident.
21. What are the various tests carried out on bitumen?
22. What are the different types of bituminous materials used in road constructions?
23. What are W B M roads? What is their construction procedure?
24. What is the Bituminous Bound Macadam?
25. What is the difference between abrasion and attrition?
26. Describe the different types of pavements.
27. What are different traffic control devices?
28. What are the various measures to decrease the accident rates?
29. What is the Passenger Car Unit (PCU)?
30. The length of valley curve is based on the which criteria?
31. Suppose if you are associated with a highway project, which drawing will usually be
prepared by you?
32. What are the basic requirements of an ideal alignment?
33. Which concept is used in arriving at the best road system out of the alternate proposals?
34. What is 30th hourly volume and how to present the 30th highest hourly volume?
35. What is Effective green time?
36. What is fixed time signals?
37. What are the disadvantages of traffic signals?
38. How to classify the Regulatory signs?
39. Explain bout rotary Islands?
40. What are the purpose of O-D studies in traffic engineering?
41. How the Greenberg’s logarithmic model is practically applicable in traffic engineering?
42. What is the difference between time head way spa head way?
43. What is space mean speed?
44. What is time mean speed?
45. What are the uses of providing dowel bars in rigid pavement?
46. What is purpose of providing contraction joints in rigid pavement?
47. How the temperature stresses are developed in cement concrete pavement due to
variation of slab temperature?
48. Explain about radius of relative stiffness in rigid pavement?
49. What is rigid pavement and list the major points?
50. What is equivalency factor in flexible pavement?
51. What is equivalent single wheel load?
52. What is the maximum wheel load in flexible pavement?
53. What is flexible pavement? And list the major points in flexible pavement?
54. Explain about road tar and classifications of tar?
55. Explain about the different types of cut backs and its purpose?
56. Explain about the softening point test(Ring hall test) in highway material testing?
57. Which grade of bitumen is used in hot climate conditions?
58. What is angular number in testing of highway materials for aggregate?
59. Explain about hardness of aggregate and its tests?
60. Explain about CBR test and what are the standard values?
61. What are the uses of plate bearing test?
62. What are the design criteria of valley curves?
63. Explain about grade compensation and IRC recommendations?
64. What is maximum allowable value of rate of change of centrifugal acceleration on design
of transition curve?
65. What are the shapes of transition curves and which type of curve is using in modern
roads?
66. What are the objectives of providing transition curves?
67. What will be the radius of Sharp curve if extra widening is provided on inner side?
68. What is the purpose of providing equilibrium super elevation?
69. Define super elevation on horizontal curves?
70. How to avoid over turning and lateral skid on horizontal curve?
71. What are the effects if the centrifugal force acting on a vehicle negotiating a horizontal
curve?
72. What is the minimum length of over taking zone for one way and two way roads?
73. What are the effects of grade in overtaking sight distance?
74. What is the minimum over taking sight distance in highway geometric design?
75. Explain the intellection time in PIEV theory?
76. Why should we providing kerbs on roads?
77. What is the use of Bump Indicator?
78. What is the main function of traffic separators (or) medians?
79. Why width of pavement is increased on horizontal curves?
80. What is the absolute minimum sight distance?
81. What are the demerits of parabolic (or) elliptic shape of camber?
82. What is the importance of index map in highway alignment?
83. Explain the road use studies in highway planning?
84. What is the concept of saturation system (or) maximum utility system in highway
development?
85. How do you classify the carriage way (or) the road pavement?
86. What are the major advantages of road transport comparing to other mode of Transport?
87. What is extra widening of road?
88. What do you mean by weep hole?
89. What is transition curve?
90. Where drainage to roads is must?
91. Describe CBR test?
92. How do you classify highway maintenance work?
93. Tell me about water bound macadam roads?
94. What is mass rapid transit system?
95. What is the prime purpose of super elevation?
96. What do you mean by Highway Engineering?
97. Brief about expansion and contraction joint?
98. What are maximum values of longitudinal and lateral friction respectively as per IRC?
99. What are the factors to be considered for road construction in areas of high and low
rainfall areas?
100. What are the factors to be considered for road construction in desert areas?
