The book emphasizes current transportation manuals, codes, and standards, making it a comprehensive and affordable alternative to costly prep courses. Many questions are more detailed than typical practice problems, improving understanding across all areas of Transportation Engineering. Each question includes figures, visual aids, and detailed solutions.
Exam Standards Covers:
- HCM (Highway Capacity Manual)
- MUTCD
- Highway Safety Manual
- Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts
- A Policy on Geometric Design (Green Book)
- Guide for Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities
- Roadside Design Guide
- Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
- Guide for Design of Pavement Structures
- NCEES Handbook Version 2.2
Introduction to the Book
This book features 160 comprehensive questions to help you pass the Transportation Civil PE Exam on your first try. Each question is educational and designed to cover a wide range of topics, with no straightforward answers. Almost everyone who has purchased this book, studied thoroughly, and taken the exam reports that it made passing significantly easier. The questions are organized into five parts:
- Project Management – This section covers essential aspects such as cost estimating, scheduling, and economic analysis, including present worth and lifecycle cost. It covers topics relevant to the project management knowledge area, ensuring readers are well prepared for the exam.
- Traffic Engineering – This section covers the traffic engineering knowledge area in the NCEES specifications, including traffic signal design, traffic control, and safety requirements. It enhances understanding of critical manuals, including the AASHTO Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), the Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities (GPF), and the Highway Safety Manual (HSM). Example questions cover interrupted and uninterrupted flow, intersection capacity, lane capacities, pedestrian traffic, traffic forecasts, trip generation, queuing diagrams, and signal design.
- Design & Geometry – This section features questions related to geometrical and cross-sectional design requirements. Topics include horizontal and vertical curve design, intersection geometry, and roadside cross-section design. It aims to improve comprehension of important guides, such as AASHTO’s Green Book and the Roadside Design Guide.
- Geotechnical & Pavement – This part addresses the geotechnical and pavement knowledge area, covering soil sampling, geotechnical evaluation, slope evaluation, consolidation, and laboratory tests. It emphasizes the use of the NCEES Handbook, AASHTO’s Guide for Pavement Structures, and the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.
- Drainage – This section includes questions from the drainage knowledge area, focusing on hydrology, hydraulics, runoff, stormwater collection, and culvert hydraulics. It aims to enhance understanding of the NCEES Handbook and AASHTO’s Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, providing essential knowledge for effective drainage design.
All answers are detailed and well-referenced, with links to relevant design manuals and codes for your reference.
The online Transportation Civil Practice Exam have been developed to provide a balanced distribution of question difficulty, along with a representative mix of conceptual and calculation-based problems.
Using both the online Practice Exam and the Essential Guide together provides a complete study strategy, reinforcing key concepts and maximizing your preparedness for the Transportation Civil PE examination.
