Transportation Engineering

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 […] Read More

Drainage is an inseparable, fundamental part of highway design. The main goal of a highway drainage system is to “keep water out of the road itself”. The reasons are obvious, such that the carrying capacity of the road will decrease, and the road will slowly erode, once the water keeps coming into the road cross section. Another important consideration is driving safety. If the water […] Read More

Today in our civilization, very unfortunately, the trend of growth of our cities is of sprawling growth type. Allowing our cities to grow just by spreading outwards, is the worst thing we can do to our planet and to ourselves. Sprawling growth not only causes us to build more parking and roads, but also brings the necessity to build the accompanying infrastructure, destroys the natural […] Read More

The most economical route would be a straight route, if the ground was just flat, with strong enough soil to support the road, and not obstruction, either man made or natural. That would be the best route. But unfortunately, reality is far from that. You must overcome a lot of obstacles, not only physical but also even environmental or legal, to build the road. As […] Read More