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BSCE 3-2 (GROUP #1)
Carbonell, Trina C.
Ariño, Mar-jay R.
Prago, Yuan Ronald Andrei B.
Maglaque, Jeliane Grace D.
Introduction
Engineering
to
Transportation
Planning
&
Transportation - a vehicle or system of vehicles, such as
buses, trains, etc. for getting from one place to another.
Modes of Transportation
1. Road Transport
1. It involves the use of motor vehicles
(cars, lorries, buses, bicycles, and
trucks).
2. It is relatively cheaper, faster and more
flexible.
3. Maintenance is one of the major
disadvantages of this mode of transport.
2. Railway Transport
1. It includes the provision of reliable
services.
2. It has the ability to convey heavy and
bulky goods.
3. It is also very cheap, safe, and also
comfortable for passengers over a long
distance.
3. Water Transport
1. It is the cheapest way of transporting
bulky goods over a long distance.
2. two major types of water transport
namely: Inland water transport and
ocean water transport.
 Inland - This is the system of
transport through all navigable
rivers, lakes, and man-made
canals.
 Ocean - carry a lot of the world’s
trade, the majority of the bulky
goods, materials, and passengers
pass through ocean waterways
from one country to another at the
cheapest cost.
4. Air Transport
a. It is the newest means of transport; it was
introduced in 1903 but developed into full
means of transporting people and goods
in the 1930s.
b. This mode of transportation can be used
for both domestic and international
flights.
5. Pipeline Transport
a. It involves the use of hollow pipes in the
transportation of water, crude oil,
(petroleum) and gas.
Transportation Engineering – It is a branch of civil
engineering that involves the planning, design, operation,
and maintenance of transportation systems to help build
smart, safe, and livable communities.
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) responsible for the planning, design, construction, and
maintenance of national highways, major flood control
systems, and other public works.
Transportation Engineering as a Profession
Transportation engineering - is the profession
responsible for the planning, design, construction,
operation,
and
maintenance
of
transportation
infrastructure.
The field includes:
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DOTr Sectoral and Attached Agencies
• Civil Aviation.
highways
airports
runways
railroad stations and tracks
bridges and waterways
drainage facilities, ports and harbors
rail or bus transit systems.
Employment opportunities exist in these areas
with federal transportation agencies, state government,
special transportation authorities, consulting firms,
railroad or airline companies, private industry, and
professional associations.
Role of Transportation Engineer
Transportation engineers plan, design, construct,
operate and maintain transportation systems. They have
a broad range of professional duties that begin with
research for new projects and extend through the ongoing
care of existing structures and systems. This both
ensures that future projects implement new technology in
a safe manner and that professionals update past projects
when necessary.
A transportation engineer's common job responsibilities
may include:
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Develop Transportation Strategies
Designers of highway, airports, railways,
transport systems
Making sure that the transportation plans comply
with engineering standards and construction
policies.
Career Options in Transportation Engineering:
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National government agencies in the Philippines that
deals with transportation:
Department of Transportation (DOTr) - is the
government agency responsible for overseeing the
transportation system in the Philippines.
Maritime Transport.
Railways.
Road Transport
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Be a City Traffic Engineer
Be a Transportation Manager
Be a Traffic Engineering Consultant
Design Freeways, Mass Transit, Rail or Street
Projects
Design Traffic Signal, Striping or Traffic Control
Plans
Design High Tech Intelligent Transportation
Systems
Work in/Operate a Traffic Management Center
Conduct Traffic & Parking Studies
Become a Professor (Need Master’s Degree +)
And others.
Transportation Engineering Track
Basic premise of a transportation system
Transportation Engineering program in the
university will provide skilled professionals that will take
the lead in solving various transportation challenges.
Transportation Engineering program provides strong
foundation in traffic engineering systems, transportation
planning/management and design of transportation
infrastructures.
The first step in formulation of a system analysis
of transportation system is to examine the scope of
analytical work. The basic premise is the explicit
treatment of the total transportation system of region and
the interrelations between the transportation and
socioeconomic context. They can be stated as:
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Transportation system
People, products, and ideas are moved through
transportation systems. Rail systems, road networks,
airline systems, and water transport connect areas,
allowing for more dependable and low-cost transportation
of people and products than was previously possible. The
history of transportation is also the history of people
mobility, colonization, economic expansion, business
development, and disease spread.
For the nation to improve its economic
development and investment climate, an effective
transportation system is essential. To make it possible for
the cost-effective flow of goods and services throughout
the nation and to promote inclusive economic growth, the
islands must be connected by a seamless transportation
network. The country's present traffic congestion may be
mostly caused by the sharp rise in vehicle population.
Diverse Characteristics:
1. Multi-modal: Covering all modes of transport; air,
land, and sea for both passenger and freight.
2. Multi-sector: Encompassing the problems and
viewpoints of government, private industry, and
public.
3. Multi-problem: Ranging across a spectrum of
issues that includes national and international
policy, planning of regional system, the location
and design of specific facilities, carrier
management issues, regulatory, institutional and
financial policies.
4. Multi-objective: Aiming at national and regional
economic development, urban development,
environment quality, and social quality, as well as
service to users and financial and economic
feasibility.
5. Multi-disciplinary: Drawing on the theories and
methods of engineering, economics, operations
research, political science, psychology, other
natural, and social sciences, management and
law.
Study context
1. Planning range: Urban transportation planning,
producing long range plans for 5-25 years for
multi-modal transportation systems in urban
areas as well as short range programs of action
for less than five years.
2. Passenger transport: Regional passenger
transportation, dealing with inter-city passenger
transport by air, rail, and highway and possible
with new modes.
3. Freight transport: Routing and management,
choice of different modes of rail and truck.
4. International transport: Issues such as
containerization, inter-modal co-ordination.
P1 The total transportation system must be
viewed as a single multi-modal system.
P2 Considerations of transportation system
cannot be separated from considerations of
social, economic, and political system of the
region.
This follows the following steps for the analysis of
transportation system:
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S1 Consider all modes of transportation
S2 Consider all elements of transportation like
persons, goods, carriers (vehicles), paths in the
network facilities in which vehicles are going, the
terminal, etc.
S3 Consider all movements of passengers and
goods for every O-D pair.
S4 Consider the total trip for every flows for every
O-D over all modes and facilities.
Major disciplines of transportation
1. Transportation Planning
Transportation
analyzing the region's
designing for future
integrating all of this
policies.
planning is the process of
present transportation situation,
transportation demands, and
with budgets, objectives, and
2. Geometric Design
The proportions and configurations of a
roadway's visible characteristics are referred to as
geometric design. This comprises pavement widths,
horizontal and vertical alignment, slope channelization,
junctions, and other elements that can have a substantial
impact on the highway network's operations, safety, and
capacity.
3. Pavement Design
Pavement design means a project level activity
where detailed engineering and economic considerations
are given to alternative combinations of subbase, base,
and surface materials which will provide adequate load
carrying capacity.
4. Traffic Engineering
Traffic engineering focuses on the functional
aspects of road geometry that make it all flow, including
traffic signs, traffic signals, intersection management and
road surface markings.
Transportation Planning
Transportation planning is a planning required in the
operation, provision and management of facilities and
services for the modes of transport to achieve safer,
faster, comfortable, convenient, economical and
environment-friendly movement of people and goods.
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It provides the information, tools and public
engagement needed for improving transportation
system performance
Is a Comprehensive, Cooperative and Continuing
process (“3 Cs”) that requires monitoring of the
system’s performance and condition
Influences many decisions, including policies,
choices among alternative strategies, priorities
and funding allocations
Transportation Plan
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Short term (1-3 years) and medium-term (3-5
years) planning can be defined relatively in the
same way. They are less complex and put no
great demand on construction activities and
require less capital expenditure.
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Long-term (More than 5 years) planning is a
complex problem and requires huge financial
expenditure and involves large and extensive
construction programs which affect the
environment in economic, social and natural
aspects.
Other Important
Engineering
Disciplines
in
Transportation
1. Public Transportation: Public transportation or
mass transportation deals with study of the
transportation system that meets the travel need
of several people by sharing a vehicle. Generally,
this focuses on the urban travel by bus and rail
transit.
2. Financial and Economic Analysis: This
discipline tries to quantify the economic benefit
which includes saving in travel time, fuel
consumption, etc.
3. Environmental Impact assessment: The
environmental impact assessment attempts in
quantifying the environmental impacts and tries to
evolve strategies for the mitigation and reduction
of the impact due to both construction and
operation.
4. Accident analysis and reduction: This
discipline looks at the causes of accidents, from
the perspective of human, road, and vehicle and
formulate plans for the reduction.
5. Intelligent transport
system:
Intelligent
transport system offers better mobility, efficiency,
and safety with the help of the state-of-the-arttechnology.