Definition of Transportation Engineering

The relevance of transport in the movement of the inhabitants of a city

The means of transport, cars, buses, trains, subways, among others, are currently one of the fundamental pillars of the mobilization of people because they facilitate the transfer of city dwellers from one place to another, that is, in short or long distances. Thanks to transportation, people can get to their jobs, to schools, to their homes or anywhere else.

So, this importance they hold demand a suitable planning in the cities whose task will be the responsibility of the engineering Of transport.

Plans, designs and executes policies and actions to create safe, efficient, cheap and green transportation

Transportation engineering is a detachment from the civil Engineering and will be exclusively in charge of planning, designing and managing all those tasks inherent to transport to provide you with, safety, a safe transfer and of course that is efficient, cheap and that is closely in tune with the care of the environment.

The focus on solving traffic

One of the issues that transport engineering especially focuses on is traffic, undoubtedly one of the main problems of today's large cities. The fantastic increase in the number of vehicles has made it impossible to circulate on the roads of the metropolis. The traffic area of ​​this engineering is concerned with studying this issue to find the most effective solutions when it comes to allowing efficient circulation without delays.
The improvement of public transport, the promotion of other means of transport such as bicycles, the improvement of streets, are some of the issues that, if they are addressed in a satisfactory way, allow generating changes positive.

The promotion of the bicycle

With regard to the environmental issue, so worrying these days, is that in most of the cities of the world, attentive to the problem of contamination, they have begun to develop policies that promote and encourage the movement by bicycle, which as We know, it is a medium that does not cause any harm to the planet and is also very healthy for those who use it. they practice.

Meanwhile, transportation engineering has focused on designing and building exclusive bicycle paths that provide greater safety to cyclists and to accompany this development, it offers citizens free bicycles and public parking spaces for themselves.