MODULE 10

Transportation Engineering

EXPLORE

Transportation time varies for trucks, trains and airplanes. Sometimes, an airplane is the
fastest way to get products from place to place. Are airplanes always a good means of
transportation? Would an airplane be the best way to get a plate of cookies from your
house to a neighbor's house two blocks away? Probably not. Flying an airplane for a
distance of two blocks would not be practical or economical. Engineers, therefore, design
transportation to not only be fast, but economical as well. Which costs more to build and
maintain: a plane or a truck?

ENGAGE

This map shows the route between Little Rock, AR, and San Diego, CA. The distance
between the two cities is 1,728 miles. It is estimated that it takes 29 hours and 9 minutes
to travel that distance by car. Does this seem like a long time?

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 EXPLAIN

TRANSPORTATION
 Movement of people and/or goods from one place to another

EVOLUTION OF LAND TRANSPORTATION

ROAD TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

NETWORK
• refers to the framework of routes within a system of locations, known as nodes
ROUTE
• a single link between two nodes that are part of a larger network

ROAD TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

• may either be
• Permanent/tangible routes (roads, rails and canals)

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 • Scheduled service/ less tangible routes (air and sea corridors, trains,
public transit)
• Describes a structure which permits either vehicular movement or flow of
commodity
• Consists of a system of interconnected ways designed to carry traffic
• Generally forms the most basic level of transport infrastructure in an urban
area
• Links with all other areas, both within and beyond boundaries

Metcalfe’s law:
• network value is proportional to the square of connected nodes
• In reference to the Ethernet, the value of network is proportional to square of the
number of connected uses in the system
Network Effect:
• Phenomenon whereby increased numbers of people improve the value of good or
service

CENTER - has high accessibility, represents the dominant element of the

network and the spatial structure it supports;

CENTER - point of highest accessibility,

SUB-CENTERS - also of significant levels of accessibility

CENTER – insignificant accessibility with other nodes, implies high

connectivity levels and redundancy

ELABORATE

PHILIPPINE Transportation
• underdeveloped due to:
• terrains (mountains)
• geography (multiple islands)
• low government investment/funding in infrastructure
• In 2013: only 3% of GDP was allocated for infrastructure
• Classified as National Highway Network

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 National Expressway Network

National Highway Network

• Series of public roads that provide inter-city connection
• Numbered N1 to N82
• N1 to N10
• Main routes or priority corridors connecting three or more cities
• N11 to N82
• Roads linking two cities
• Mostly single and dual carriageways linking two or more cities

• ROAD LENGTH: 216, 387 km

• PAVED : 61, 093 km (DPWH, 2017)

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 National Expressway Network
• Controlled - access highway network
• Managed by DPWH
• Consists of all expressways and regional high standard highways ( provide high
level of traffic service)
• Multi-lane divided toll roads
• Spans 420 km as of 2015 (est 626km by 2020 – JICA)
• Classifications:
• Arterial High Standard Highways ( HSH-1)

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 • Regional High Standard Highways (HSH-2)

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
MODE OF TRANSPORT: (Land)
 Buses
 Jeepneys
 Taxis
 Motorized tricycles
 Railways – within Metro Manila, Laguna and some parts of Bicol
 Expressways and Highways : mostly in Luzon
 Railways only have 79 km footprint (2019)

MODE OF TRANSPORT: (Water)

 double-outriggers (trimaran)
 bangka (sails)
 pump boats (motorized bangka)

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 Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH)
– 919 km integrated set of highway segments and ferry routes covering 17 cities (2003)

PORTS:
Fishing: 429
Commercial : 821

MODE OF TRANSPORT: (Air)

• airplanes
AIRPORTS:
International: 12
Domestic: 32
Community: 41
Unclassified: 65
Military: 21
UNDER Construction: 18
EVALUATE

How has technology affected transportation? What is the significance of transportation

engineering to urban infrastructure?

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