Q. California Bearing Ratio method of designing flexible pavements is more accurate as it involves

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Q. Longitudinal pavement lines marked broken in white paint

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Q. Design of flexible pavement, involves

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Q. Design of highways is based on

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Q. If the designed speed on a circular curve of radius 1400 m is 80 km/hour, no superelevation is provided, if the camber, is

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Q. Width of a rotary round should be equal to

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Q. To prevent movement of moisture from subgrade to road pavement on embankments about 0.6 m to 1 m higher than water table, the thickness of cut off layer of coarse sand used, is

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Q. The statement, regarding the size of stones used at the wearing surface. "The size of a stone used on a road must be in due proportion to the space occupied by a wheel of ordinary dimensions on a smooth level surface. The point of contact will be found to be longitudinal about 2.5 cm and every piece of stone put into the road which exceeds 2.5 cm in any of its dimension is mischievious" was made by

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Q. If L metres is the distance between extreme axles of a vehicle, its gross load should not exceed

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Q. If V is the design speed of vehicles in km/hour, the change of radial acceleration in metres/sec³, is

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Q. Volume of traffic which is due to improvement carried out in adjacent area, is known as

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Q. Roughness index of roads, is expressed as

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Q. Pick up the correct statement from the following:

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Q. Degree of a road curve is defined as the angle in degrees subtended at the centre by an arc of

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Q. The tangent length of a simple circular curve of radius R deflecting through θ°, is

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Q. Which one of the following transportation systems is not used for the conveyance of passengers in India?

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Q. Thickness of broken line markings on multi-lane road for lanes is generally kept

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Q. On a pavement with parabolic camber, the angle of inclination of the vehicles will be

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Q. The difference in gradients after full super-elevation and the initial alignment of a road, is known as

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Q. If the radius of a main curve is 300 m and length of the transition curve is 100 m, the angle with tangent to locate the junction point, is

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