FE Civil Exam Prep

13. Transportation Engineering (9–14)

A. Geometric design (e.g., streets, highways, intersections)
1. A highway profile is shown in the figure. If the design stopping sight distance is 500 ft, the driver’s
eye height above the roadway surface is 3.00 ft, and the height of an object in the roadway to be
avoided by stopping is 1.00 ft, the minimum design length (ft) of the vertical curve is most nearly:

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LENGTH OF VERTICAL CURVE

DIRECTION OF VERTICAL CURVE

A. 1,507
B. 1,598
C. 1,674
D. 1,723

2. The distance a motorist can see approaching vehicles before their line of sight is blocked by an
obstruction near the intersection is dependent upon the

A. design speed of major road

B. time gap for vehicle entering roadway
C. driver reaction time
D. Both A and B

B. Pavement system design (e.g., thickness, subgrade, drainage, rehabilitation)

3. A flexible pavement system is to be designed using the AASHTO structural number design method
with the following criteria:
Material Minimum Coefficient of Drainage
Thickness Structural Layer Coefficient
(in.)
AC surfacing 1.5 0.40
Aggregate base 3 0.20 0.95
Aggregate subbase 3 0.15 0.92
Structural number = 3.00

If the minimum thickness of the surfacing and aggregate base are used, the required thickness (in.) of the
aggregate subbase is most nearly:
A. 4.0
B. 4.4
C. 6.2
D. 8.0
 4. One of the advantages of concrete pavement over asphalt pavement is that concrete pavement has:

A. Higher flexibility
B. Lower cost
C. Higher strength
D. Lower durability

C. Traffic capacity and flow theory

5. A highway lane has a volume of 1,550 vehicles/hr. The time spacing (sec) between vehicles (center
to center) is most nearly:
A. 1.9
B. 2.3
C. 4.5
D. 8.1

D. Traffic control devices

6. Markers, signs, and signal devices used to inform, guide and control traffic, including pedestrians,
motor vehicle drivers and bicyclists are:
A. Traffic flow models
B. Traffic regulation systems
C. Traffic safety techniques
D. Traffic control devices

E. Transportation planning (e.g., travel forecast modeling, safety, trip generation)

7. At a particular site, if the crash rate per million entering vehicles is 9.5 and the average daily traffic
entering the intersection 7,000, the total number of crashes is most nearly:
A. 20
B. 24
C. 28
D. 32