number of people.

Transportation using e) Multi-disciplinary

waterways is possible through ports, – Drawing on the theories and methods of
terminals along lakes and rivers. Though it is engineering, economics, operations
the slowest type of transportation, it is the research, political science, psychology,
most efficient since the relative amount of other natural, and social sciences,
power to the amount of loads, goods and management and law
services waterway transportation provide is
Major Disciplines of Transportation:
much lower.
• Transportation Planning
4. Airways – the fastest and safest, provides – development of a transport model which
more comfort, but cost so much more than will accurately represent both the current as
the other ways of transportation. well as future transportation system.

5. Pipelines – this mode of transportation is • Geometric Design

specifically designed for goods such as – deals with physical proportioning of other
water, crude, oil and petroleum gas. transportation facilities
General Phases of Transportation
Engineering: • Pavement Design
– deals with the structural design of roads,
❖ Planning both bituminous and concrete
❖ Design
❖ Operations • Traffic Engineering
❖ Maintenance – focus on the safety of the public, the
❖ Construction efficient use of transportation resources, and
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: the mobility of people and goods.

a) Multi-modal
– Covering all modes of transport; air, land, Other important disciplines of
and sea for both passenger and freight. Transportation:
• Public transportation (mass
b) Multi-sector transportation)
– ncompassing the problems and viewpoints – deals with study of the transportation
of government, private industry, and public. system that meets the travel need of several
people by sharing a vehicle.
c) Multi-problem
– Ranging across a spectrum of issues that • Financial and economic analysis
includes national and international policy, – Transportation facilities require large
planning of regional system, the location and capital investments. Therefore it is
design of specific facilities, regulatory, imperative that whoever invests money
institutional and financial policies. should get the returns.

d) Multi-objective: • Environmental impact assessment

– Aiming at national and regional economic – the depletion of fossil fuels and the
development, urban development, degradation of the environment has been a
environment quality, and social quality, as severe concern of the planners in the past
well as service to users and financial and few decades. Transportation; in spite of its
economic feasibility.