Transportation Engineering

Mobility has always been important to human society.All civilization built roads because human valued efficient mobility and because communication and trade were treated essential to the functioning of societies.Efficient and safety is a direct correlation in Modern Society.The lesser the rate of infant mortality, the more developed the country.Referred to table 1.Transportation does play a vital role in country’s development by facilitating trade between regions, reducing travel time costs, improving accessibility, etc.Transportation engineering here concerned with the field of building safe and efficient transportation systems.

Transportation engineering is the application of scientific processes (like observation, analysis, and deduction“Conclusion”) to the planning, designing, building,operation and management transportation facilities.There are various kinds of transportation facilities,Human-powered vehicles (like cycles)Jet-powered vehicles (like aircraft)…Handling stationary vehicles (parking lots or ports).

Any transportation system consists of various modes of travel ranging from walking to driving to use of craft to fly.One way of classifying a transportation system is to form classes of different modes of travel. Such classification is termed modal classification.All modes of travel consist of the same set of elements such as a person who drives, the vehicle is driven, the path that is used, the users who use the mode and the like. Therefore another way of looking at a transportation system could be to look at its element.Such classification is termed elemental classification.Functional classification: a transport engineer needs to analyze and design facilities to be used by vehicles or may need to determine routes of buses, or may even need to chalk out a plan of transportation – related activities.