Highway Engineering
Engineers in this specialization:
- Handle the planning, design, construction, and operation of highways, roads, and other vehicular facilities as well as their related bicycle and pedestrian realms.
- Estimate the transportation needs of the public and then secure the funding for the project.
- Analyze locations of high traffic volumes and high collisions for safety and capacity.
- Use civil engineering principles to improve the transportation system.
- Utilizes the three design controls which are the drivers, the vehicles, and the roadways themselves.
Read more about this topic: Transport Engineering
Famous quotes containing the words highway and/or engineering:
“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)