Challenges in Transportation Engineering

Increase in Traffic Congestion

Despite improvements in traffic congestion prevention over the previous few
decades, many communities still have difficulty properly managing it. The decision to
enlarge municipal highways is only one example of a strategy that city and roadway
engineers have used in the past that hasn’t worked to reduce traffic congestion.
Engineers unintentionally increased traffic in cities by giving a single route priority and
disincentivizing the use of other roadways and modes of transportation. The main
reasons for traffic jams are accidents that block lanes, bad weather, sudden increases
in traffic demand, traffic bottlenecks, and broken traffic control devices. Multiple factors
can often occur simultaneously. Several factors can contribute to a traffic jam.
https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/blog/traffic-congestion-problems-and-solutions/
Limited Access to Public Transportation
For all communities, public transportation was already a major concern,
particularly in major metropolitan areas where large populations frequently congregate
in the same area at the same time. Mass transit is currently the major obstacle for
students and workers who depend on transportation to return to their regular routines in
comfort and safety because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its social distancing effects.
On the other hand, towns, transportation providers, and engineers must coordinate all
passenger flows to satisfy all demands and new rules without sacrificing effectiveness
and profitability while maintaining reasonable and user-acceptable rates.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2226585621000340
Road Safety Problems
Road traffic accidents and injuries are today considered a significant man-made
epidemic, with 50 million injuries and 1.3 million fatalities worldwide each year. Around
85% of all fatalities worldwide occur in developing nations, where accidents are
particularly common in low and middle-income nations. Road factors are extremely
common in accidents, and it is generally recognized that systematic improvements in
road engineering and design can prevent many of these incidents and save lives swiftly
and affordably. Road engineering experts are faced with a significant difficulty as a
result of the issue of road safety.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
346083908_ROAD_SAFETY_ENGINEERING_CHALLENGES