Transport engineering - the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design , operation and management of facilities for any type of transport in order to ensure safe, efficient, fast, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally safe movement of people and goods. This is a subdiscipline of building engineering and industrial engineering . Transport engineering is an important component of building engineering. The importance of transport engineering in construction and industrial engineering can be judged by the number of units in ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) that are directly related to transportation . Six such divisions (space, air, highway, pipeline, water and urban transport), which constitute one third of 18 ASCE technical departments [1] [2], are identified .
The planning of transport engineering aspects is based on urban planning and involves technical forecasting and consideration of various political factors. Technical forecasting of passenger traffic, as a rule, includes the urban transport planning model, which requires an estimate of the generation of trips (how many trips for which purposes), the distribution of trips (choice of destination), the choice of mode (which mode is accepted) and the route (which streets or routes are used). More sophisticated forecasting may include other aspects of passenger decisions, including car availability, travel chains (deciding to link individual trips together on a tour) and choosing a home or office (known as land use forecasting). Passenger trips are the focus of transport engineering because they often represent the main burden for any transport system.
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- ↑ ITE - The Transportation Profession (not available link) . ITE . The appeal date is June 27, 2010. Archived on March 3, 2009.
- ↑ ASCE - About Civil Engineering (Unavailable (inaccessible link) . ASCE . The appeal date is June 28, 2010. Archived July 2, 2010.