DECCAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
(A Unit of Deccan Group of Institutions)
A Self-Financed Muslim Minority Institution Established by Dar-us-salam Educational Trust
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi & Affiliated to Osmania University
Dar-us-salam, Aghapura, Hyderabad-500 001 (T.S.)
DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
IV-YEAR|VIII-SEM|CSE-A & B(2024-2025)
SUBJECT: ESSENTIALS OF ROAD SAFETY ENGINEERING(OE805CE)
QUESTION BANK (UNIT – I to UNIT – V)
UNIT I – Basics of Road Safety
SAQs:
1. What is road safety engineering?
2. What are road safety measures in India?
3. List 5E’s to prevent road accidents.
4. Draw a neat sketch of condition and collision diagram. (QP question)
5. What are the elements of road safety design?
6. What are driver characteristics for road safety? (QP question)
7. Write the characteristics for vehicle design factors.
8. What are the common characteristics of road accidents? (QP question)
9. What are traffic calming schemes? (QP question)
LAQs:
1. Write about Human Characteristics of geometric design.
2. How Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of roads is carried out. Discuss in detail. (QP question)
3. Explain cross-section improvement.
4. Explain the measures of road maintenance.
5. Discuss various safety countermeasures in design of road.
6. Describe the current road safety scenario in India and identify major issues. (QP question)
7. Discuss the role of human factors in road accidents. (QP question)
8. What engineering solutions can be implemented to improve road safety? (QP question)
9. Explain how road safety planning is carried out in India. (QP question)
10. Discuss in detail the strategies adopted for road safety improvement. (QP question)
UNIT II – Accident Data Collection and Analysis
SAQs:
1. What are the major causes of road accidents? (QP question)
2. What are different types of road accidents?
3. Why is it important to collect accident data?
4. List various statistical methods used to analyse road accident data. (QP question)
5. What is Empirical Bayes method? What is its formula?
6. What is post-accident care? Briefly explain.
7. What is the concept of road accident statistics? (QP question)
LAQs:
1. Explain Parking Enforcements and its influence on accidents.
2. Differentiate between Regression method and Poisson distribution method in detail. (QP question)
3. Write in detail about the causes of road accidents. Discuss about the remedial measures for prevention of
road accidents.
4. It has been found that on an average 1 in 100 drivers in a bus company are involved in accident every
year. If there are 500 drivers, what is the probability that there are exactly 4 drivers who are involved in
an accident during a year. (QP question)
5. Explain Chi-squared distribution with an example.
6. Explain design of parking facilities.
7. What are the statistical methods involved in analysis of accident data? (QP question)
8. Discuss in detail about the accident data collection process with flowchart. (QP question)
9. Discuss in detail about various applications of computer-based analysis of accident data. (QP question)
UNIT III – Road Safety Audit
SAQs:
1. What is the importance of road safety auditing? (QP question)
2. What is safety during construction? Explain briefly.
3. What is crash investigation analysis?
4. What are methods of identifying hazardous road locations? (QP question)
5. Define black spot.
LAQs:
1. What are the key elements in road safety audit? (QP question)
2. Explain in detail safety during construction.
3. What are various stages of road safety audit? (QP question)
4. Explain crash investigation analysis in detail. (QP question)
5. What is Road Safety Audit? Explain the process of conducting road safety audit. (QP question)
6. Explain how environmental and driver characteristics influence road safety. (QP question)
UNIT IV – Road Signs and Road Markings
SAQs:
1. What is the need for road markings? (QP question)
2. What is construction zone marking? (QP question)
3. What is redesigning junction?
4. What is the classification of road signs? (QP question)
5. What is the classification of road markings?
6. Draw neat sketches of regulatory and warning signs. (QP question)
LAQs:
1. Describe the role of road marking. Sketch any three road markings. (QP question)
2. Discuss briefly on safety provisions taken for pedestrian and cyclists. (QP question)
3. Discuss the various objectives of road signs and traffic signals in detail. (QP question)
4. Explain the importance of street lighting and pavement markings with neat sketches. (QP question)
5. Write in detail about the different types of road signs with neat sketch. (QP question)
UNIT V – Traffic Signals & Highway Appurtenances
SAQs:
1. What are the factors affecting signal design? (QP question)
2. List the advantages of traffic signals. (QP question)
3. Differentiate between fixed signal and vehicle actuated signal.
4. What are signalized intersections?
5. Write short notes on road safety barriers. (QP question)
6. What is the role of ITS in traffic incident management? (QP question)
7. What are the characteristics of ITS in incident management? (QP question)
LAQs:
1. Discuss the need and factors affecting design of traffic signal. (QP question)
2. What is enforcement in traffic management?
3. Explain the factors affecting the signal design. (QP question)
4. Explain the merits and demerits of traffic signals. (QP question)
5. Explain signal coordination and delineators. (QP question)
6. List out the various methods of signal design and discuss in detail about the factors affecting signal
design. Also write about safety barriers and traffic aid posts. (QP question)
7. What are the latest tools and techniques used for road safety management? Explain them. (QP question)
8. What is Legislation, Enforcement, Education and Propaganda measures in Traffic Management
Techniques? (QP question)
9. What are the characteristics of traffic incidents? Explain them in detail. (QP question)
10. How road traffic management authorities manage the natural and manmade disasters during and after
incidents? (QP question)
11. Write short notes on:
a) Attenuators and Delineators (QP question)
b) Travel demand management
c) Road safety issues