What is Transportation Engineering? History Of Transportation Engineering. Importance of Transportation Engineering.
What is Transportation Engineering? History Of Transportation Engineering. Importance of Transportation Engineering. 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, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally friendly movement of people and goods. Transportation engineering's planning aspects are related to urban planning elements and involve technical forecasting decisions as well as political factors. Technical forecasting of passenger travel typically involves an urban transportation planning model, which necessitates the estimation of trip generation (number of purposeful trips), trip distribution (destination choice, where the traveller is going), mode choice (mode that is being used), and route assignment (the streets or routes that are being used). Other aspects of tr...