--- title: Transportation Engineering description: Transportation engineering covers the planning, design, and operation of transport systems. Learners analyze traffic flow, design highway alignments, plan public transit networks, and evaluate safety measures to move people and goods efficiently and sustainably. category: engineering subcategory: civil-and-environmental-engineering difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/transportation-engineering --- # Transportation Engineering Transportation engineering covers the planning, design, and operation of transport systems. Learners analyze traffic flow, design highway alignments, plan public transit networks, and evaluate safety measures to move people and goods efficiently and sustainably. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 4 Courses • 5 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces **Author:** Marco te Brömmelstroet Coursera course from the University of Amsterdam and EIT Urban Mobility on moving cities away from car-dominated streets, covering mobility transition theory, temporary street experiments, citizen activism versus bureaucracy and international case studies, ending with a written plan for local street change. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/reclaiming-the-street **Tags:** street-design, urban-mobility, public-space, transition-management, urbanism ### 2. Public Transportation Systems (MIT 1.258J) **Author:** Nigel Wilson, Gabriel E. Sanchez-Martinez, Neema Nassir Urban bus and rail transit: the role of each mode, data collection and analysis, performance monitoring, route design, frequency setting, vehicle and crew scheduling, and how pricing and service quality affect ridership. Includes 17 lecture videos and slides for planning and evaluating transit service. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/1-258j-public-transportation-systems-spring-2017/ **Tags:** public-transit, transit-operations, service-planning, route-design, crew-scheduling ### 3. Highway Engineering Learn highway engineering principles and practices with Prof. Krishna Rao's course. Explore transportation engineering concepts! **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nptel.ac.in/courses/105106117 **Tags:** highway engineering, pavement design, geometric design, highway materials, road construction ### 4. Transportation Engineering I Learn fundamental transportation engineering principles with Prof. Mathew's "Transportation Engineering I" course. Explore planning, design & traffic flow! **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nptel.ac.in/courses/105105113 **Tags:** transportation engineering, highway geometric design, traffic engineering, transportation planning, pavement design ## Websites ### 1. ASCE Transportation & Development Institute The Transportation and Development Institute organizes ASCE's transportation practice through technical committees, conferences, standards, and webinars. Members track current professional practice in highways, airfields, ports, and transit, and reach peer-reviewed proceedings and continuing-education material. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.asce.org/communities/institutes-and-technical-groups/transportation-and-development-institute **Tags:** professional organizations, transportation engineering, civil engineering practice, continuing education, engineering standards ### 2. FHWA Transportation Resources The Federal Highway Administration's official site publishes U.S. highway design guidance, safety and pavement program material, research reports, and national roadway statistics. Useful for seeing how federal standards and policy actually shape highway engineering decisions. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://highways.dot.gov/ **Tags:** highway engineering, design standards, road safety, transportation policy, highway statistics ### 3. Pavement Interactive - Materials Reference Desk Reference wiki documenting asphalt binder chemistry and Superpave performance grading, aggregate properties and tests, portland cement, and mix design procedures, with write-ups of the standard AASHTO and ASTM test methods behind each specification. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://pavementinteractive.org/reference-desk/materials/ **Tags:** asphalt-binders, superpave, aggregates, pavement-materials, mix-design, aashto-test-methods ### 4. ite.org ITE.org is the website of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, a professional society for transportation engineers and planners. It provides information on membership and local chapters, events and conferences, and access to publications, standards, technical resources, webinars, and career resources in transportation engineering. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ite.org **Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering ### 5. transportation.org Transportation.org serves as a comprehensive resource hub for transportation engineering and planning, offering articles, case studies, design guidelines, and industry news for students and professionals. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://transportation.org **Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering ## Books ### 1. Traffic Engineering **Author:** Roger P. Roess, William R. McShane, Elena S. Prassas Undergraduate textbook covering traffic studies, signal timing, capacity and level-of-service analysis, and highway geometric design. Working through it gives you the standard methods for measuring flow and sizing intersections and freeway segments to U.S. practice. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131424718?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering ### 2. Transportation Engineering **Author:** C. Jotin Khisty Survey textbook spanning transportation planning, traffic flow, geometric and pavement design, and evaluation of transport systems. It gives a broad map of the field's subdisciplines before you specialize in highways, transit, or planning. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0139292748?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/transportation-engineering