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Tuesday 11 December 2012

The phase of Highway Engineering which deals with planning and geometrical design of roads, streets, adjoining lands and with traffic operations there on for safe, convenient and economic transportation of persons and goods is known as Traffic Engineering.

Present day roads are to serve all types of traffic from pedestrian and animal driven traffic to automobile traffic including military vehicles and are thus liable to traffic congestion. So, to avoid traffic congestion and to provide efficient free and rapid flow of all types of traffic, the studies of traffic characteristics and traffic operations have become essential before planning and designing of any highway.

Now these aspects of planning and geometrical design of road and traffic studies have become so important that they constitute a separate branch of civil engineering, known as Traffic Engineering and the person who performs thes traffic studies is called traffic engineer.



Objects of Traffic Engineering :- 
  1. To provide efficient flow of traffic.
  2. To provide free flow of traffic.
  3. To provide rapid flow of traffic.
  4. To provide safety to the traffic.
Thus with different measures in Traffic Engineering safe, convenient and economic transportation of persons and goods can be achieved.

Scope of Traffic Engineering:-
Traffic Engineering includes the study of the following phases:-
  1. Traffic characteristics
  2. Traffic operations 
  3. Traffic planning
  4. Traffic geometrical design
  5. traffic administration.
As per scope of this book we shall be studying about the details of only first two phases in the subsequent articles of this chapter.

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