A roundabout in Bristol.

Transport engineering is a field of civil engineering, which is about planning transport systems. Sometimes it is also called transportation engineering. It uses technology and scientific principles to plan, functionally design, operate and manage facilities for any mode of transportation. It is about providing infrastructure for safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.[1][2]

There are different subfields:

Transport engineering can be studied at technical universities. Usually it is a specialization of a technical domain of study, such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering or urban planning.

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  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2024-01-13.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "What is Transportation Engineering?". CivilEngineeringBible.com. Retrieved 2023-11-16.