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CE-502 RGPV B.Tech

Transportation Engineering- II (TE)

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Previous Year Papers

5 papers, latest Dec 2025

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for CE-502

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Highway Planning, Alignment & Geometric Design 8 topics
  • Principles of highway planning
  • Road planning in India and financing of roads
  • Classification patterns
  • Requirements and engineering surveys for highway location
  • Cross‑sectional elements – width, camber, superelevation, sight distances
  • Extra widening at curves
  • Horizontal and vertical curves
  • Numerical problems related to alignment and geometry
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Bituminous & Cement Concrete Pavements 9 topics
  • Design of flexible (bituminous) pavements
  • Design of mixes and stability (WBM, WMM, BM, IBM)
  • Surface dressing and interfacial treatments – seal coat, tack coat, prime coat, wearing coats
  • Grouted macadam and bituminous concrete specifications
  • Construction and maintenance of flexible pavements
  • Advantages and disadvantages of rigid (cement concrete) pavements
  • General principles of rigid pavement design, types, construction, maintenance and joints
  • Dowel bars and tie bars in rigid pavements
  • Recent developments in cement concrete pavement design, fatigue and reliability
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Low Cost Roads, Drainage, Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning 9 topics
  • Principles of stabilization and mechanical stabilization of low‑cost roads
  • Requirements, advantages, disadvantages and uses of stabilization techniques
  • Quality control of stabilization works
  • Macadam roads – types, specifications, construction, maintenance and causes of failure
  • Surface and sub‑surface drainage of roads
  • Highway materials – properties and testing
  • Channelised and unchannelised intersections, at‑grade and grade‑separated intersections
  • Rotary‑type intersection design, marking, signs, signals and street lighting
  • Principles of transportation planning – inventories, trip generation, trip distribution, model split, traffic assignment and plan preparation
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Airport Planning, Runway & Taxiway 5 topics
  • Airport site selection and classification of airports
  • Aircraft characteristics and their effects on runway alignment
  • Wind‑rose diagrams and basic runway length calculations with corrections
  • Geometrical elements of taxiways and runways
  • Runway capacity patterns
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Airport Obstructions, Lightning & Traffic Control 4 topics
  • Zoning regulations and approach areas
  • Approach surface types – imaginary, conical and horizontal
  • Runway and taxiway lighting, rotating beacon, boundary lights and approach lights
  • Instrument landing system, precision approach radar and VOR en‑route traffic control
Unit 5 notes
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Exam insights

Counted from 5 past CE-502 papers.

Marks asked per paper, by unit

  • Unit 1 Highway planning, Alignment & Geometric Design 27 marks
  • Unit 2 Bituminous & Cement Concrete Pavements 29 marks
  • Unit 3 Low Cost Roads, Drainage of Roads, Traffic Engg. & Transportation Planning 17 marks
  • Unit 4 Airport Planning, Runway & Taxiway 21 marks
  • Unit 5 Airport, Obstructions, Lightning & Traffic control 14 marks

Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.

Asked again and again

  1. Calculate the corrected/actual runway length by applying elevation, temperature and gradient corrections to the basic runway length under standard conditions.

    Asked 5 times: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020

  2. Explain the step-by-step construction procedure of Water Bound Macadam (WBM) road.

    Asked 5 times: 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019

  3. Explain rigid pavement and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.

    Asked 4 times: 2025, 2024, 2020, 2019

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