Which term is a drawing that presents both the roadway plan view along with its profile on the same sheet and at equal horizontal scales?

• A. Plan and Profile
• B. Plan
• C. Planimetry
• D. Plinth

Answer: (A)

In highway design drawings, a plan and profile sheet combines two essential views on one page: the roadway’s plan view, which shows the horizontal alignment from above, and the profile, which shows the vertical alignment along the route. Presenting them at equal horizontal scales means the horizontal distances match exactly between the two views, so where a feature sits in plan lines up with its elevation along the profile. This pairing lets engineers assess how the road's path and grades interact, check sight distances, determine grades and curvature together, and ensure the design is coherent along the alignment. The term that describes this combined drawing is plan and profile. A plan alone covers only the top-down layout, planimetry refers more generally to the mapped positions in two dimensions, and plinth is unrelated to road drawings.