"The application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation."
Focuses on the design, development, and operation of transportation systems and infrastructure, including highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and railways.
Traffic Analysis: This involves understanding the behavior and movement of vehicles on roads and highways, including capacity, flow, and congestion.
Transportation Planning: This involves the design, development, and management of transportation systems, taking into account infrastructure, policies, and social factors.
Pavement Materials: This topic deals with the selection, characteristics, and behavior of various pavement materials, including concrete, asphalt, and gravel.
Highway Geometric Design: This involves the design and layout of highways, including alignment, cross-section, and vertical and horizontal curves.
Traffic Operations and Control: This involves managing the flow of traffic through methods such as traffic signals, roundabouts, and speed management techniques.
Public Transit Systems: This topic deals with designing and managing public transportation systems, including buses, trains, light rail, and subways.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: This involves using technology to improve transportation efficiency, including traffic management systems, electronic toll collection, and real-time traveler information systems.
Bridge Engineering: This topic deals with the design and maintenance of bridges, including structural analysis, materials, and construction methods.
Transportation Safety: This involves analyzing and improving the safety of transportation systems through techniques such as accident analysis and countermeasures.
Environmental Issues in Transportation: This topic deals with the environmental impact of transportation systems, including air and noise pollution, climate change, and sustainable transportation practices.
"To provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods transport."
"The planning aspects of transportation engineering relate to elements of urban planning."
"Estimation of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and route assignment."
"Auto ownership, trip chaining, and the choice of residential or business location."
"They often represent the peak of demand on any transportation system."
"Operations planning, logistics, network analysis, financing, and policy analysis."
"Safety protocols, geometric design requirements, and signal timing."
"Planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation facilities supporting various modes of transportation."
"Sizing of transportation facilities, determining materials and thickness for pavement, and designing the geometry of the roadway or track."
"Take an inventory of the area or the previous system in place, including information on population, land use, economic activity, transportation facilities and services, etc."
"They involve traffic engineering to ensure smooth movement of vehicles on the road or track."
"Signs, signals, markings, and tolling."
"Intelligent transportation systems, including advanced traveler information systems, advanced traffic control systems, and vehicle infrastructure integration."
"Driver-vehicle interface and user interface of road signs, signals, and markings."
"The planning aspects of transportation engineering relate to elements of urban planning."
"Trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and route assignment."
"Operations planning, logistics, network analysis, financing, and policy analysis."
"Safety protocols, geometric design requirements, and signal timing."
"Sizing facilities, determining materials and thickness for pavement, and designing the geometry of the roadway or track."