Transportation Engineering - Lecture Slides | CE 147, Study notes of Transportation Engineering

Download Transportation Engineering - Lecture Slides | CE 147 and more Study notes Transportation Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! 1 CE 147 – Transportation Engineering Lecture 1: Introduction Learning Objectives • Identify and discuss the primary areas of transportation engineering • Discuss the role of a transportation engineer (and potential career opportunities) • Compare and contrast competing goals of a transportation engineer • Compare and contrast the historical and changing constraints and advances in the transportation field. 2 What is transportation engineering? “The application of scientific principles to the safe and efficient movement of people and goods… It is a sub- discipline of civil engineering.” - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Engineering What are the primary areas of transportation engineering? 1. Transportation Planning (Ch. 8) 2. Traffic Analysis/Operations (Ch. 5 – 7) 3. Facilities Design (Ch. 3 – 4) 4. Research and Education 5 Discussion Why is the field of transportation engineering so complex? Why don’t we just “fix it”? What are some of the issues or constraints that make “fixing it” challenging? Discussion: What’s wrong? Why don’t we just fix it? • Changing constraints/challenges include : – Economic Constraints – Political Constraints – Environmental Constraints – Geographical Constraints – Technological Advances/Challenges – Behavioral/Societal Issues 6 Conclusion: In this course, you will understand that the “best” engineering solution is not always feasible due to these constraints. Next Steps 1. Get the textbook today. 2. Read Chapter 1. 3. Lab meets this week. 4. Print lecture notes for the entire following week available on SacCT.