Transportation engineering is one of the main branches in civil engineering. Airports, roads, bridges, tunnels, and the complementary structures such as retaining walls, abutments, culverts, drainage systems fall under this branch. Here remember that the structural design of bridges, tunnels, retaining structures are still performed by structural engineers specializing in this field. Some common transportation engineering failures are listed below:

Underestimating the demand, which causes traffic congestion (overestimating means too costly systems, which means wasted funds, because these are very large projects)

Signal, signage and traffic control system failures

Pavement structural failures

Drainage system failures, which can stem from the drainage defects of pavement itself, or the drainage from nearby complementary components. These can cause floods, accidents, congestion and significantly shortens the service life of the pavement system, because entry of water into a pavement cross section significantly reduces the load bearing capacity of the system and also cause internal erosion.

Road layout failures which can cause reduced sight distance and in turn accidents, too much earthwork, drainage problems

Post By: A. Tuter

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