INTRODUCTION TO

TRANSPORTATION
ENGINEERING
2nd Semester, A.Y. 2015-2016

Transportation is
1. All about moving goods and

people from one place to another

2.Safe, efficient, reliable, and

sustainable movement of
persons and goods over time
and space.

Transportation Engineering
- is the application of technology and scientific
principles to the planning, functional design,
operation, and management of facilities for any
mode of transportation in order to provide for
the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient,
economical, and environmentally compatible
movement of people and goods.

Traffic Engineering
- is that phase of transportation engineering
which deals with the planning, geometric design
and traffic operations of roads, streets, and
highways, their networks, terminals, abutting
lands, and relationships with other modes of
transportation.

FUNCTIONS & OBJECTIVES

Transportation Engineering
-- Design
Focusesrunways,
on the infrastructure
transportation
build bridges,oflayout
roads and plan
docking
- Look at facilities
traffic patterns, determine when new transport
facilities are needed and come up with better ways
- Application of technology and scientific principles to the
planning,
functional design, operation, and
- Management of facilities

Traffic Engineering

- The principal objective of traffic engineering is to provide

a safe system for road traffic including pedestrians and
bicycles.
- Provision of efficient management & operations of road
transport
network
Other objectives can be:
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impacts
- Comfort & convenience of the user
- Economy

Modes of Transportation
1. By Land
a) Railways
- Surface
- Underground
- Elevated
- Light rail transit (LRT)
b) Road Transport
2. By Air
- Air Transport
3. By Water
- Water Transport
3. By Pipes
- Pipeline Transport

History of Transportation
Engineering
1. Humans had migrated by their feet
2. Use domesticated animals to carry goods
3. Built machines and devices, like sleds and travois,
to help them carry more.
4. Establishing trading routes
5. Well-used paths became more and more
permanent.
6. These paths became the first roads
7. Maintain the roads and look at ways in which they
could be
made easier to travel
8. The first transportation engineers.

Four critical dimensions of change

in Transportation System
1. Change in values of the public
2. Changes in the technology
3. Change in operational policy
4. Change in the demand

Components of the Traffic Systems

1. Vehicular Traffic - Cars, Buses, Trucks,
Taxis...
2. Road Conditions - Motorway, Highway,
Urban Arterial, Rural roads ...
3. Driver Characteristics - Young, Drunk,
Experienced, Learners License ...
4. Environmental Conditions - Rainy,
Sunny, Foggy, Night-time conditions ...
5. Control Devices - Signalised/Unsignalised
...

The characteristics of
Transportation System
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Multi-disciplinary
Multi-sector
Multi-problem
Multi-objective
Multi-modal

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Elements of a Transportation
System
1. Infrastructure: which includes
Road, canal, rail, air Transfer points
Supporting elements (signs, signals,
safety)
2. Vehicles: which includes Planes,
trains, autos, buses, ships, trucks
3. Operators/Content : which
includes Drivers, pilots, freight,
passengers

Role of Transportation in Society

1. Economic role of transportation
Transportation contributes two kinds of utilities
(place and time utility)
Major conclusion about the economic role of
transportation systems
a. adequate transportation infrastructure is
necessary for high level of economic activity to
exist.
b. most transportation is not undertaken by its own
sake (though some take it for pleasure), but is what
referred to as Secondary Goods/secondary service.

Role of Transportation in Society

2. Social role of transportation
- Growth of Urban Centers
- Size and Pattern of Settlement
- Formation of settlements
3. Environmental role of transportation
- Safety
- Air Pollution
- Noise pollution
- Energy consumption
4. Other impacts
- Aesthetics
- Social life and social pattern

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Major disciplines of Transportation

1. Transportation Planning - involves the development of a
transport model
2. Geometric Design - deals with physical proportioning of
other transportation facilities
= Cross-sectional features,
= Horizontal alignment,
= Vertical alignment and
= Intersections
3. Pavement Design - deals with the structural design of
roads, both (bituminous and concrete)
= Drainage design
= Functional design
= Structural design .
4. Traffic Engineering - covers a broad range of engineering
applications with a focus on
= The safety of the public,
= The efficient use of transportation resources, and
= The mobility of people and goods.

Additional Disciplines of Transportation

1. Public Transportation
- study of the transportation system that meets the
travel
need of several people by sharing a vehicle.
= characteristics of various modes
= planning
= management and operations
= policies for promoting public transportation
2. Financial and economic analysis
- tries to quantify the economic benefit which
includes saving in travel time, fuel consumption, etc.

Additional Disciplines of Transportation

3. Environmental Impact assessment
- attempts in quantifying the environmental impacts
and tries
to evolve strategies for the mitigation and
reduction of the impact due to both construction and
operation.
4. Accident Analysis and Reduction
- looks at the causes of accidents, from the
perspective of human, road, and vehicle and formulate
plans for the reduction.
5. Intelligent Transport System
- offers better mobility, efficiency, and safety with
the help of the state-of-the-art technology

Factors in
Transportation
Development
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Economic Factors
Geographical Factor
Political Policies
Military
Technological Factor
Urbanization
Competition

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THANK YOU
DAKAL A SALAMAT