SURVEYING AND

TRANSPORTATION
ENGINEERING
EASY
SURVEYING
 Given a regular hexagonal with consecutive corners
ABCDEF. If the bearing of side AB is N 25o E, what
is the bearing of side FA?
N 35o W
 A car travelling at 60 kph applies a brake and
stopped at a distance of 30 m. the coefficient of
friction between the tires and the road is 0.5. What
is the grade of the road?
-2.8%
SURVEYING
 A closed traverse has the following data:
LINE BEARING DISTANCE (m)
AB ------------- 60.00
BC ------------- 72.69
CD S 17O 20’ E 44.83
DE S 70O 36’ W 56.45
EA S 74O 30’ W 50.00

Find the bearing of line BC.

S 82O 23’ E
TRANSPORATION ENGINEERING
 The number of accidents for 4 years recoded in a
certain section of a highway is 3,768. If the
accident rate is 4,220 per million entering the
vehicles, what is the average daily traffic (ATD)?
612
SURVEYING
 A vertical parabolic sag curve has tangent grades
of -1.2% and +0.6%. If the grade changes
uniformly at 0.18% per 20 m. Find the length of the
curve.
200m.
AVERAGE
SURVEYING
 The observed interior angles of a triangular piece
of land ABC are as follows:
A=35o 14’ 37”
B= 96o 30’ 09”
C= 48o 15’ 05”
The most probable value of angle B is nearest to:
96o 30’ 12”
HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
 Cracks in concrete pavement due to temperature
expansions can be prevented or minimized by:
a) Insuring proper consistency and strength of
concrete mixture.
b) Proper preparation of subgrade
c) Continuous pouring of concrete
d) Providing expansion joints and sectional pouring of
concrete.
D
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
 The driver of a car travelling at a certain speed
suddenly sees an obstruction ahead and travelled a
distance of 72 m during the perception-reaction
time for 2.5 seconds. Determine the car’s speed of
approach in kph.
103.7 kph
SURVEYING
 Given the following cross-section notes of an
earthworks on an 8-m-wide roadway:
6.70 0 4.75
+1.80 +1.40 +1.50
Determine the area of the cross-section.
12.615 m2
HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
 A pavement has modulus of elasticity of 120 MPa
and a stiffness factor of 0.5. Determine the modulus
of elasticity of the subgrade.
15 MPa
DIFFICULT
SURVEYING
 A parabolic curve AB 400 m long connects two
tangent grade of 6.5 % and -3%. If the elevation
of the summit is 123.256 m, what is the elevation of
point B?
121. 356 m
 SURVEYING
 A compound curve has the following properties:
I1=32o
Length of the long chord from PC to PCC, L1=235.98 m
I2=24o
Length of the long chord from PCC to PT, L2=178.23 m
Find the length of the chord from PC to PT.
401.15 m
SURVEYING
 A reversed curve has the following properties:
Degree of Curve, D1=3o
Central angle, I1=24o
Degree of Curve, D2=4o
Central angle, I2=38o
Stationing of P.C. = 67+345.23
Determine the stationing of PRC (point of reversed
curvature.)
67+505.233
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 A spiral easement curve for SRP-Cebu has a length
of 60 m with central curve having a radius of
400m. The design speed of the car on this curve is
100 kph. Compute the rate of increase of
centripetal acceleration in ft/s3.
2.93
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
 The peak hour factor (PHF) during rush hour along
EDSA is 0.90. The highest 5-minute volume is 250
vehicles, and the space mean is 90 kph. Determine
the spacing of vehicles in meters.
33.3 meters