Highway engineering

Highway engineering
The Blue Ridge Parkway atop the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation
Names
  • Highway engineer
  • roadway engineer
  • street engineer
Synonyms
  • Roadway engineering
  • street engineering
Occupation type
Profession
Activity sectors
Description
Competencies
Education required
Fields of
employment
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Highway engineering (also known as roadway engineering and street engineering) is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.[1][2][3] Highway engineering became prominent towards the latter half of the 20th century after World War II. Standards of highway engineering are continuously being improved. Highway engineers must take into account future traffic flows, design of highway intersections/interchanges, geometric alignment and design, highway pavement materials and design, structural design of pavement thickness, and pavement maintenance.[1]

  1. ^ a b Rogers, Martin (2002). Highway engineering. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science. ISBN 978-0-632-05993-5.
  2. ^ O'Flaherty, C.A., ed. (2002). Highways the location, design, construction and maintenance of road pavements (4th ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-7506-5090-8.
  3. ^ "Highway engineering." McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Credo Reference. Web. 13 February 2013.