ASSIGNMENT #1

1. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING:

a.) TRAFFIC

Traffic can refer to the movement of not only vehicles such as cars and trucks that travel on
roads and highways, but also to people and pedestrian paths and walkways. It is defined as
vehicles or people in the vehicles, a delay that involves transportation or movement through a
designated location.

b.) Traffic Engineering

Traffic Engineering is the subdiscipline of transportation engineering that addresses the

planning, design and operation of streets and highways, their networks, adjacent land uses and
interaction with other modes of transportation and their terminals. Traffic Engineers are
specialists at understanding and changing the technical aspects of road design to maximize
traffic flow and reduce congestion.

It is a method of civil engineering that helps to optimize the performance and efficiency
of the movement of people, goods, and transportation. In the field of traffic engineering,
engineers must look at the whole picture in order to maximize traffic flow and reduce instanced
of congestion: the movement of vehicles on roads and highways; the movement of pedestrians.
Through data collection of road construction, land development, and traffic signals, and build
traffic studies from them–allowing them to come up with new and inventive ways to optimize
the construction of roads, freeways, and other forms of ground transportation.

c.) Traffic Management

Traffic management refers to the direction, control, and supervision of all vehicular and
pedestrian traffic around a construction zone, thus ensuring the safety of construction workers
and the general public. The level of traffic management required for a project may depend on a
variety of factors, including the location and complexity of the works. Projects in busier, built-
 up areas may require a higher level of traffic management, as motorists, cyclists, pedestrians
and workers interact with heavy equipment.

d.) Transportation

Transportation refers to the movement of goods and persons from place to place and the
various means by which such movement is accomplished. The growth of the ability and the need
to transport large quantities of goods or numbers of people over long distances at high speeds in
comfort and safety has been an index of civilization and in particular of technological progress.

e.) Transportation Engineering

Transportation engineering is the application of modern technology and scientific principles

to the design, development and maintenance of transportation systems. This is a branch of civil
engineering. Civil engineering covers the broad area of infrastructure design.

The field of transportation engineering utilizes the latest developments in transportation and
uses them to create the most efficient and effective systems possible for various locales.
Transportation engineering applies to major terminals as well as the networks that connect them.
Any product or system that moves people and goods from one place to other falls under the
scope of transportation engineering.