Paper format. National Examinations, May 2019 — 16-Civ-A6 Highway Design, Construction and Maintenance. Five questions, all of equal value (20 marks each); the candidate completes any four, and only the first four solutions are marked. The last question’s results are entered on the blank table printed on page 5 of the exam. Closed book, approved calculators only. Because the set is a study resource, all five questions are solved here.
Highway Design”, while pages 2–5 and every one of the ten appendix pages read “16-Civ-A6 … May 2019”. The paper is 16-Civ-A6; the A4 string is a cover-sheet error. Two data items the exam never prints are assumed under NOTE 1 and flagged where they are used: the driver perception–reaction time in Question 4 (taken as 2.5 s) and the dust content passing the 0.075 mm sieve in Question 5 (taken as 5.0 %).
Reference texts.
- AASHTO, Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (1993), Part II Chapters 2 and 3 — the flexible and rigid performance equations, Figures 2.5–2.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 and Tables 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. All of these are reproduced in the ten-page exam appendix.
- Y. H. Huang, Pavement Analysis and Design, 2nd ed., Chapters 11 (flexible design) and 12 (rigid design).
- N. J. Garber and L. A. Hoel, Traffic and Highway Engineering, 5th ed., Chapters 3 (driver and vehicle characteristics), 15 (geometric design) and 16–20 (highway materials and pavement design).
- Transportation Association of Canada, Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads, Chapters 2 (design controls), 3 (elements of design), 5 (horizontal alignment) and 6 (vertical alignment); TAC roadside-safety clear-zone tables.
- Asphalt Institute, Superpave Mix Design (SP-2), and AASHTO M 323 / R 35 (Superpave volumetric mix design).
