Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning

The spectacular growth of the automobile as one of the most convenient modes of travel has brought in its wake frustrating problems of parking, accidents, delay, congestion and environmental degradation. It is ho longer sufficient to build roads of adequate structural strength to cater to the needs of vehicles, but it is equally important that the safe, efficient and comfortable movement of traffic and other road user is ensured on these roads. This need has given birth to new branch of engineering, known as Traffic Engineering. The subject is growing in important as the vehicle population increases, and the attendant problems become alarming.