AN INTRODUCTION TO

TRANSPORTATION
ENGINEERING

(TEXTBOOK: Introduction to Transportation Engineering by J. Banks)

TRANSPORTATION: WHAT IS IT?
movement of people and
goods from one location
to another

• includes the manufacture and

distribution of vehicles, the
production and distribution of
fuel, and the provision of
transportation services
 WHY DO WE HAVE
TRANSPORTATION?
economic wealth
•military power
Political reasons
 2 INFLUENCES OF TRANSPORTATIONS
 Reliable transportation
allows a population to
expand throughout a
country’s territory and
to live comfortably in
remote areas far from
factories and farms.

•Burning of petroleum-
based fuels for motor
vehicles creates pollution
that can be harmful to
human health.
 Transportation System Constraints:
1. Maintenance of an
adequate level of
transportation
infrastructure,
particularly on the
specific level of
investment required

2. Environmental concerns:
Human environment
 What is Transportation Engineering?

 the application of
scientific principles
to the planning,
design, operation,
and management
of transportation
systems
 Components of Transportation Systems :
 Physical Facilities
– streets, roads,
highways,
railroads,
airports, sea and
river ports,
pipelines, and
canals

Fremantle Port

Denver airport
 Components of Transportation Systems
• Operating bases and
 Fleets of vehicles,
facilities, including
vessels, and
vehicle maintenance
aircraft
facilities and office
space

Qantas Office-Sydney

Qantas Maintenance Facility-

Sydney
 Components of Transportation Systems
2. Operating Organizations (or
 Organizations Carriers) –
concerned with operating
1. Facility-oriented Organizations fleets to provide
– involved in planning, transportation services. They
include railroads, airlines,
designing, constructing, ship or barge lines, truck
maintaining, and operating lines, transit operators, and
fixed facilities (ex: DOTC, private individuals who
RTA, MMDA, DPWH, PPA, operate automobiles,
ATO, private land motorcycles, and bicycles.
developers, etc)
 CIVIL ENGINEERING INVOLVEMENT IN
TRANSPORTATION
 The primary involvement of civil engineers in transportation
has been in the provision of physical facilities (physical civil
engineering) and the devising of operating strategies
(systems engineering) for them.

• Physical Civil • Systems Engineering –

Engineering – planning and operation of the transportation
design, construction, system, and is involved in transportation
and maintenance of planning, including the analysis of
fixed transportation transportation demand; the analysis of system
facilities and capacity and operating characteristics; and the
involves the full design of traffic control and operating
spectrum of civil strategies (which includes highway traffic
engineering engineering and operational design of freight
specialties and mass transit systems).
 MODES OF TRANSPORTATION
A. Land Transportation

1. Human Power

3. Wheeled vehicles

2. Domestic
Animals
 Land Transportation
• Bus
4. Railroads 5. Motor Vehicles

• Heavy truck

• Motorcycle
• Car

• Snowmobile
 B. Air Transportation
4. Lighter-than-air vehicle:
3. Lighter-than-air vehicle
(Airship)
(Airships)
• blimps
1. Airplanes a. Balloons
• dirigibles

2. Helicopters

5. Outer-Space
Vehicles
 B. Air
Transportation

6. Recreational Air Vehicles

Ultralights
 glider
C. Water Transportation
1. Raft, canoe, kayak 2. Oar-Driven Boats

3. Sailboat 4. Sailing ship

 8. Hydrofoil
C. Water Transportation missile ship
7. Crane barge
5. boat

9. hydrofoil

10. hovercraft
6. barge
C. Water Transportation

11. Steamships

14. Freight vessel

12. Cruise ship

13. Container vessel

C. Water Transportation
16. Lighter-Aboard 17. Tanker
15. Roll on-Roll off Vessel Ship

18. Aircraft
Carrier
New US Air Force
Aircraft Carrier
D. Pipelines
 E. Cable and Belt Systems Ski Lift

Conveyor belt
Sources of Funds for
Financing Transportation
 user charges (fares and toll fees, fuel
taxes)
 public general funds (regular taxes)
 private investments
 cross-subsidization among various levels
and types of systems
THAT’S ALL,
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