Transportation Engineering

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Outline

• What is an engineer?
• Different types of engineers
• Civil engineers
• Transportation engineers
• Education
• New solutions
• Site transportation planning
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What is an Engineer?

• Engineers are problem solvers—people

who make things work better, more
efficiently, quicker, and less expensively
• Engineers apply math and science to
create something of value from our
natural resources

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Different Types of Engineers

• Chemical
• Electrical & Computer Add a picture for
• Mechanical each discipline
and have it
• Industrial appear with the
discipline…

• And Civil Engineers!

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Civil Engineers

• Structures
• Hydraulics/Hydrology Add a picture for
• Wastewater/Environmental each discipline
and have it
• Geotechnical appear with the
discipline…

•Transportation
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Add pictures here of some
different modes of transportation
or other pictures related to
transportation…

The Transportation
Profession
Transportation Engineers

• What do Transportation Engineers do?

– No ER, West Wing, L.A. Law that glamorizes
the transportation profession
– Transportation Engineers are, however,
making a difference all around us

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Transportation Engineers

Add a picture here of a train and

talk about how most people think
that Transportation Engineers
drive trains…

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Transportation Engineers

Add pictures here of construction

and other things that
transportation engineers do…

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Transportation Engineers

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I used crash videos from TTI

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Transportation Engineers

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I used crash videos from TTI

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Transportation Engineers

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I used crash videos from TTI

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Transportation Engineers

I include a series of 4 or 5 funny

signs to talk about some of the
things Transportation Engineers do
and to get the students to think
about the signs…

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Transportation Engineers

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What is Transportation?

• Streets, highways, and transit systems

that allow people and goods to move
safely and efficiently
– Backbone for a strong economy
– Key contributor in quality of life
• How many types of transportation can you
name?
– Write down on a piece of paper
all of the types of transportation
you can think of 15
Transportation Modes

Add a picture for

each mode and
have it appear
with the mode…

Surface Air

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Water Pipeline
Surface Modes

Bicycle
Add a picture for Transit
each mode and
have it appear
Highways & with the mode…
Streets
Pedestrian
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Freight

• Truck and railroad:

– Key component in the economy
– Provides goods
and services
Add a picture of
freight movement…

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Photo credit: Dan Kuhn, UDOT
Air

• Dual purpose
– Movement of people and goods
– Creation/expansion
of business and
industry Add a picture of air
movement…

Photo credit: www.airliners.net 19

Used with permission.
Water

• Water transportation
– Primarily for freight movement
– Bulky commodities with low cost per unit
• National system Add a picture of
– Waterways water movement…
– Lakes
– Oceans
– Ports
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Transportation Facts Nationwide

• 1.6 million hours per day stuck in traffic

• Avg. person spends one hour per day in
their car
• 160,000 traffic signals Add a picture of
in the US congestion…
• Cost of congestion is
$40 Billion per year

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Transportation in Utah

• Transportation is growing at a rate 2x that

of population
– Rush hour today in Salt Lake City – 1 hr
– 5 to 7 years from now – 2 hrs
– 10 years from now – 3 hrs Add a picture of
• 90 minutes to travel from congestion and
Provo to Salt Lake City modify the
information to
match your state…
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Transportation in Utah

• Solutions?
– Optimize existing
infrastructure
– Construct new facilities
Add a picture of a
– More widespread use
TOC…
of advanced technology

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Transportation Careers

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be used – this is the long one, the
next is the short one – pick one and 24
then delete the other (and this text!)
Transportation Careers

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Education

• Math
• Science
• Physics
Add pictures that
are educational
• What else? centered…

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What Else?

• Communications
• Writing
• Problem Solving
• Creativity Add pictures related
to these items…
• Integrity

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Why Engineering?

• You get to see what you build

• Help the community
• Creativity
• Latest technology
• Travel
• High demand
• Good living
Add a picture of a
fun engineering
project that you
have worked on…
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New Solutions

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I used simulation model videos

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Questions…

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