GROUP 1

• Tracy Otwua Arthur

• Ebisah Samuel
• Abraham Amaglo
• Cobbie Gyan Manful
TRANSPORT ENGINEERING OVERVIEW

Transportation has always played an essential role in the development of society. Originally with regard
to trade routes and harbors, but more recently with regard to Land and air-based systems, it is the
transportation engineer’s responsibility to plan, design, build, operate and maintain.

Transport systems is in such a way so to provide for the safe, efficient and convenient movement of
people and goods. Increasing environmental concerns have revived an interest in the development and
management of public transportation systems.

Professional activities can range from road and transit design and operation at the urban scale, to
railroad, seaway and airport location, construction and operation at the regional and national scale.
Transportation engineering in certain countries focuses on automobile infrastructures, although it also
encompasses sea, air and rail systems.

Automobile/Vehicle infrastructures can be split into the traditional area of:

• Highway design and planning

• Traffic control systems.

The transportation engineer faces the challenge of developing both network links and major

terminals to satisfy transportation demands with due regard for proper land use and

environmental impacts.

TRANSPORT ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT

Transport engineering has always been one of the essential civil engineering disciplines impacting
roadways, bridges, transit stations, airports and sea ports etc. Transport engineering has now
developed into a multidisciplinary field including economics, politics, sociology and psychology, in
addition to its core mathematical, engineering and computational principles. We need a broad range of
continually evolving, large-scale transport infrastructure, Including road, rail, air and water. Transport
engineers quantify and optimize our mobility infrastructure networks to meet travel and freight
demands while ensuring safety, and sustainability, at minimal levels of congestion and cost. Transport
engineers plan, design and operate the large public and private infrastructure systems that connect our
physical world.

TRANSPORT PLANNING

Transport planning involves developing mathematical techniques for:

• forecasting travel demand and planning to accommodate growth in demand

• determining improvements to the transport infrastructure

• reducing emissions.

• •reducing energy use.

Computational transport planning uses mathematical methods to predict, represent and Quantify:

• the evolution of land in cities

• travel attributes such as trip purpose

• travel decisions, including mode choice.

Planning models then examine the feasibility of projects and policies through cost-benefit and scenario
analysis.

TRANSPORT DESIGN

Transport engineers make design decisions when they are designing optimized transport Infrastructure
networks. These might relate to:

• the physical expansion of transport facilities, such as lane width or the number of Lanes, for a
roadway

• the materials and thickness used in pavements

• facility, such as a roadway, rail line or airport

• road pricing schemes

• deploying information-based technology.

In all design decisions, multiple performance measures, cost implications and safety criteria must be
carefully considered.

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS

Transport operations, whether for road, rail, port or air traffic, are designed to:

• minimize travel delays. • improve safety• reduce emissions • enhance reliability

With the development of new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transport engineers use tools
including advanced Traveller Information Systems, advanced traffic Control systems (such as ramp
meters) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to optimize the performance of the transport
system.