Category: Traffic and Urban Engineering

Municipal engineering is concerned with municipal infrastructure. This involves specifying, designing, constructing and maintaining streets, sidewalks, water supply networks, sewers, street lighting, municipal solid waste management and disposal, storage depots for various bulk materials used for maintenance and public works, such as salt and sand, public parks and bicycle paths. In the case of underground…

Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. It focusses mainly on research and construction of the immobile infrastructure necessary for this movement, such as roads, railway tracks, bridges, traffic signs and traffic lights. Increasingly, however, instead of building additional…

Airport engineers design and construct airports. Airport engineers must account for the impacts and demands of aircrafts in their design of airport facilities. One such example is the analysis of predominant wind direction to determine runway orientation.

Port and harbour engineers handle the design, construction and operation of ports, harbours, canals and other maritime facilities. This is not to be confused with marine engineering.

Railway engineers handle the design, construction and operation of railroads and mass transit systems that use a fixed guideway (such as light rail or even monorails). Typical tasks would include determining horizontal and vertical alignment design, station location and design and construction cost estimation. Railroad engineers can also move into the specialized field of train…

Highway engineering handles the planning, design, construction and operation of highways, roads and other vehicular facilities as well as their related bicycle and pedestrian realms. It estimates the transportation needs of the public and then secures the funding for the project and analyzes locations of high traffic volumes and high collisions for safety and capacity.…

The basic modes of transport are by land, water and air. Land has given scope for development of road and rail transport. Water and air have developed waterways and airways, respectively. The roads or highways not only include the modern highway system but also the city streets feeder roads and village roads, catering to a…

The planning aspects of transport engineering relate to urban planning and involve technical forecasting decisions and political factors. Technical forecasting of passenger travel usually involves an urban transportation planning model, requiring the estimation of trip generation (how many trips for what purpose), trip distribution (destination choice), mode choice (such as what mode is being taken)…

Transport engineering or transportation engineering is the science of safe and efficient movement of people and goods. It is a sub-discipline of civil engineering. Transportation contributes to the economic, industrial, social and cultural development of any country. Transportation is vital for the economic development of any region since every commodity produced, whether it is food,…