Test: Development of Road Construction - Civil Engineering (CE) MCQ

The romans built roads by excavating till the hard strata they were much stronger than required for animal drawn carts that time.

The tresaguet method was developed in 1764 AD in France after the fall of Roman Empire, in later years better methods were developed.

Telford insisted to provide a definitely varying cross slope by varying the thickness under the foundation of stones.

The slope provided is 1 in 36, it was proposed by Macadam. He also completely changed the construction methods that were used earlier.

The bigger stones that were passing through 100mm sieve were used at the bottom and compacted and the smaller stones that were passing through 50mm were used at the top of the pavement.

The Indian Roads Congress was formed in the year 1934 after recommendation from the jayakar committee after a meeting in year 1928 and CRF was formed in 1929.

 The jayakar committee recommended that a research board should be formed for all research and development works related to roads and it was formed in 1950.

The First 20 year development plan conference was held in Nagpur,hence it is also called as Nagpur road plan, second was held in Mumbai and third in Lucknow.

 The Phase II of NHDP consists of linking the east west corridor from Porbandar in Gujarat to Silichar in Assam.

The Primary system consists of National Highway and expressway. The secondary system consists of State highway and other Major District Roads.