Railroad and Highway Engineering

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1. This is place where early roads with hard surfaces were found.

Answer: Mesopotamia

2. He was accredited the title "Father of modern road building.


Answer: Jerome Tresaguet

3. He was the president and founder of the lnstitute of Civil Engineer.


Answer: Thomas Telford

4. A road concept named after John Louden Mac Adam.


Answer: Macadam Road

5. He invented the first stone crusher.


Answer: Eli Blake

6. It is sacred. Anybody who occupies any portion thereof, by exceeding the


boundaries of his land, is considered to have encroached on the king himself.
Answer: King's Highway

7. It is otherwise called Photogrammetry. It is the science and art of obtaining


measurements by means of photography
Answer: Remote Sensing

8. It is an aerial photograph corrected for scale and tilt.


Answer: Orthophotographs
9. It presents a more detailed and precise information on traffic and parking
studies.
Answer: Aerial Colored Photograph

10. The Philippine highway network is a network of national roads owned and
maintained by what government agency?
Answer: Department of Public Works and Highways or DPWH

Enumeration
1-3. What are the three (3) inseparable sets of inputs involved in highway
programming
Answers:
- Economic
- Financial
- Political And Administration

4-6. The early Saxon Laws imposes three mandatory duties for the people to
perform. What are these?
Answers:
- To repair the roads and bridges.
- To repair the castles and the garrisons
- To aid repel invasions.

7-8. What are the two Highway Specifications


Answers:
- Standard Specifications
- Special Provisions
9-10. Give atleast 2 historical road construction.
Answers:
- Early Roads
- Roman Roads
- Tresaguet Construction
- Telford Construction
- Macadam Construction

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