SEM-V (Civil Engineering)

Traffic engineering(2015505A)
[Time:- 3 Hours] [Max Marks:70]
-All Question Are compulsory
-Marks are mentioned on the right side of each question.

Group(A)
Choose the most suitable answer from the following question. (1*50=50)

Q1) Enoscope is used to find?

a. Average speed
b. Spot speed
c. space-mean speed
d. Time-mean speed
Q2) for highway geometric design purposes the speed used is?
a. 15th percentile
b. 50th percentile
c. 85th percentile
d. 98th percentile
Q3) Select the correct statement?
a. Traffic volume should always be more than traffic capacity.
b. Traffic capacity should always be more than traffic volume.
c. Spot speed is the average speed of a vehicle at a
specified section.
d. 85th percentile speed is more than 98th percentile speed.
Q4) Length of a vehicle affects?
a. width of traffic lanes.
b. extra width of pavement and minimum turning radius.
c. width of shoulders and parking facilities.
 d. clearance to be provided under structures such as over
bridges, under bridges etc.
Q5) Bottom most layer of pavement is known as?
a. Warning coarse
b. Base coarse
c. Sub-base coarse
d. subgrade
Q6) Desire lines are plotted in?
a. traffic volume studies.
b. speed studies.
c. accident studies.
d. origin and destination studies.
Q7) The traffic manoeuvre shown in Fig. 4.1 represents?

(Fig.4.1)

a. diverging.
b. Merging.
c. Crossing.
d. Weaving.
Q8) With increase in speed of the traffic stream, the minimum
spacing of vehicles?
a. Increases.
b. Decreases.
c. first decreases and then increases after reaching a minimum
value at optimum speed.
d. first increases and then decreases after reaching a maximum
value at optimum speed.
Q9) Which of the following is known as design capacity?
a. basic capacity.
b. theoretical capacity.
c. possible capacity.
d. practical capacity.
Q10) Equivalent factor of passenger car unit (PCU) for a passenger
car as per IRC is?
a. 1.0
b. 2.0
c. 0.5
d. 10
Q11) Which of the following is indicated by a warning sign?
a. level crossing.
b. no parking.
c. end of speed limit.
d. overtaking prohibited.
Q12) "Dead Slow" is a?
a. regulatory sign.
b. warning sign.
c. informatory sign.
d. none of the above.
Q13) When two equally important roads cross roughly at right
angles, the suitable shape of central island is?
a. Circular.
b. Elliptical.
c. Tangent.
d. Turbine.
Q14) The maximum number of vehicles beyond which the rotary
may not function efficiently is?
a. 500 vehicles per hour
b. 500 vehicles per day
c. 5000 vehicles per hour
d. 5000 vehicles per day
Q15) A traffic rotary is justified were?
a. number of intersecting roads is between 4 and 7.
b. space is limited and costly.
c. when traffic volume is less than 500 vehicles per hour.
d. when traffic volume is more than 5000 vehicles per hour.
Q16) When the width of kerb parking space and width of street
are limited, generally preferred parking system is?
a. parallel parking.
b. 45° angle parking.
c. 65° angle parking.
d. 90° angle parking.
Q17) The direct interchange ramp involves?
a. diverging to the right side and merging from left.
b. diverging to the left side and merging from right.
c. diverging to the right side and merging from right.
d. diverging to the left side and merging from left.
Q18) It is a common practice to design a highway to accommodate
the traffic volume corresponding to?
a. 30th hour.
b. peak hour.
c. ADT.
d. 15 min-peak period.
Q19) Consider the following factors:
1. Length of vehicle
2. Width of vehicle
 3. Approach speed
4. Stopping time for approaching vehicle
5. Passing sight distance
Which of these factors are taken into consideration for determining
yellow time of a traffic signal at an inter section?
a. 1, 2 and 5
b. 2, 3 and 4
c. 1, 3 and 5
d. 1,3 and 4
Q20) Which one of the following is the purpose of divisional island?
a. To divert the traffic into definite travel path at the intersection.
b. To reduce the speed of traffic entering the intersection.
c. To divert traffic from obstacles and expedite the flow of traffic.
d. To segregate opposing flow of traffic in a multi-lane highway.
Q21) Based on '30th hour volume' for how much percent time
during the year can the designer willingly tolerate the
unfavourable operating conditions?
a. 30
b. 29
c. 2.5
d. 0.33
Q22) A journey from work to home made by walking to the bus,
travelling by bus to the station and completing the journey by
train is regarded as
a. 4 trips
b. 3 trips
c. 2 trips
d. 1 trip
 Q23) Which one of the following is taken into consideration for
computing traffic capacity per lane of the highway?
a. Passenger cars and light vehicles.
b. Trucks and buses.
c. Two-wheelers.
d. Equivalent of passenger cars.
Q24) Ratio of the width of the car parking area required at kerb for
30° parking relative to 60° parking is approximately?
a. 0.5
b. 0.7
c. 0.8
d. 2.0
Q25) Which set of traffic studies is needed for functional design as
well as for 'highway capacity' design?
a. Origin and destination studies.
b. Parking and accident studies.
c. Speed and volume studies.
d. Axle load studies.
Q26) Which one of the following traffic survey schemes is most
relevant when deciding on locating major 'routes' in a city?
a. Traffic volume survey.
b. Origin and destination survey.
c. Speed survey.
d. Traffic capacity survey.
Q27) Traffic capacity is the?
a. Ability of roadway to accommodate traffic volume in terms of
vehicles/hr.
b. Number of vehicles occupying a unit length of roadway at
a given instant expressed as vehicles/km.
c. Capacity of lane to accommodate the vehicles
widthwise (across the road).
d. Maximum attainable speed of vehicles.
Q28) The duration of green time of a traffic signal depends on?
a. traffic density.
b. traffic volume.
c. traffic speed.
d. All of the above.
Q29) Overspeed and delay studies on a preselected section of a
Highway are conducted by?
a. Fast moving car method.
b. Enoscope.
c. Radar.
d. Traffic contours.
Q30) Width of a rotary round should be equal to?
a. twice the width of narrowest radial road.
b. width of the widest road.
c. width of the widest road plus the width of one lane.
d. width of the widest road plus 2 metres.
Q31) The weaving length of a roadway is the distance?
a. between the channelising islands.
b. equal to half circumference.
c. equal to total width of adjoining radial roads.
d. equal to diameter of rotary.
Q32) A subsidiary area in a carriageway placed so as to control the
movement of the traffic, is?
a. median strip.
b. island.
c. flower bed.
d. refuge.
Q33) For the movement of vehicles at an intersection of
two roads, without any interference, the type of grade
separator generally preferred to, is?
a. Delta.
b. Trumpet.
c. diamond interchange.
d. clover leaf.
Q34) The grade separator shown in Fig. 16.18, is known as?

a. trumpet.
b. clover leaf.
c. diamond interchange.
d. delta.
Q35) Round-abouts are not suitable if number of vehicles exceed?
a. 3000.
b. 4000.
c. 5000.
d. 6000.
Q36) Signs having red border, white border and black
symbols are?
a. Warning signs.
b. Can be both warning and prohibitory signs.
c. Prohibitory signs.
d. Mandatory signs.
Q37) The shape of ‘give way’ sign in the traffic signal is?
a. Rectangle.
b. Octagonal.
c. Circle.
d. Inverted triangle.
Q38) The pavement width of a road depends upon?
a. Terrain.
b. Type of traffic.
c. Number of lanes.
d. All the above.
Q39) Which of the following factor affects the alignment of a
road?
a. Obligatory paints.
b. Economics.
c. Traffic volume.
d. All of the Above.
Q40) Traffic volume is equal to?
a. Traffic density*Traffic speed.
b. Traffic density/Traffic speed.
c. Traffic speed/Traffic density.
d. None of the above.
Q41) The diagram which shows all importance physical conditions
of accident location like roadway limits, Bridge trees, and all
details of roadways condition is known as?
a. Pie Chart
b. Spot maps
c. Condition diagram
d. Collision diagram
Q42) When the speed of speed of traffic flow becomes zero, then?
a. Traffic density attains Maximum value whereas traffic volume
becomes zero.
b. Traffic density and traffic volume both attain maximum value.
c. Traffic density and traffic volume both become zero.
d. Traffic density becomes zero whereas traffic volume attains
maximum value.
Q43) The background colour of the informatory sign board is?
a. Red
b. Yellow
c. Green
d. White
Q44) The most efficient traffic signal system is?
a. Simultaneous system.
b. Alternate system.
c. Flexible progressive system.
d. Simple progressive system.
Q45) The stopping sight distance is always?
a. Less then stopping sight distance.
b. Equal to overtaking sight distance.
c. More than overtaking sight distance.
d. None of the above.
Q46)”Dead slow” is a?
a. Regulatory sign.
b. Warning sign.
c. End of speed limit.
d. None of the above.
Q47) When the speed of traffic flow becomes zero, then?
a. traffic density attains maximum value. whereas traffic volume
becomes zero.
 b. traffic density and traffic volume both attain maximum value.
c. traffic density and traffic volume both become zero.
d. traffic density becomes zero whereas traffic volume attains
maximum value.
Q48) Equivalent factor of passenger car unit (PCU) for a passenger
car as per IRC is?
a. 1.0
b. 2.0
c. 0.5
d. 10
Q49) Which of the following is known as design capacity?
a. basic capacity.
b. theoretical capacity.
c. possible capacity.
d. practical capacity.
Q50) The maximum width of a vehicle as recommended by IRC is?
a. 1.85m.
b. 2.44 m.
c. 3.81 m
d. 4.72 m.
Group(B)
Answer The following Questions: - [4*5=20]
Q1. what are the objects and Scope of traffic engineering? [04]
Explain briefly?
Q2. what is significant of road user characteristic in traffic [04]
engineering? Discuss briefly the various Factor which effect the road
user characteristics and their effects in the traffic Performance?
Q3. What are the different vehicular characteristics which [04]
effect the road design? Briefly explain?
Q4. Write Short Notes on:- [04]
(i) Thirteenth highest hourly traffic volume?
(ii) Desire lines?
Q5.Explain Traffic capacity, basic capacity and practical capacity? [04]