Main domains of Transportation Engineering:
– Highway
– Railway
– Waterway
– Air
– Pipeline
– Space
– Highway
– Railway
– Waterway
– Air
– Pipeline
– Space
Tasks of a Transport Engineer:
- Planning
- Functional design
- Operation and
- Management of facilities
- Planning
- Functional design
- Operation and
- Management of facilities
Objective of Transportation Engineering:
Ensuring Safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
Ensuring Safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
Importance
Importance of transportation engineering within the civil engineering profession can be judged by the number of divisions in ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) that are directly related to transportation.
- Six divisions (Aerospace; Air Transportation; Highway; Pipeline; Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean; and Urban Transportation)
- Represents one-third of the total 18 technical divisions within the ASCE (2000)
