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Prepared By: Rocksana Akter Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering DUET, Gazipur

The document discusses traffic engineering, which uses techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways, and includes studying regulations, characteristics, controlling measures, traffic flow at junctions, parking areas, surveys, and road elements that affect traffic. The objectives of traffic engineering are to achieve smooth traffic flow, develop improvement methods, provide safe and economic transport, improve vehicle speeds and traffic capacity, ensure safety for pedestrians and vehicles, reduce delays, and minimize accidents. Traffic surveys aim to analyze accidents, determine road facilities, obtain traffic data, forecast future trends, provide parking, and suggest speed controls.

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Prepared By: Rocksana Akter Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering DUET, Gazipur

The document discusses traffic engineering, which uses techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways, and includes studying regulations, characteristics, controlling measures, traffic flow at junctions, parking areas, surveys, and road elements that affect traffic. The objectives of traffic engineering are to achieve smooth traffic flow, develop improvement methods, provide safe and economic transport, improve vehicle speeds and traffic capacity, ensure safety for pedestrians and vehicles, reduce delays, and minimize accidents. Traffic surveys aim to analyze accidents, determine road facilities, obtain traffic data, forecast future trends, provide parking, and suggest speed controls.

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Lecture 13

Prepared by

Rocksana Akter
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
DUET, Gazipur
Traffic engineering

Traffic engineering is a branch of civil


engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve
the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on
roadways.
Traffic Engineering includes:

• The study of regulations for traffic


• Characteristics of traffic
• Controlling and guiding measures for traffic
• Flow of traffic at junctions
• Parking areas
• Traffic survey
• Engineering elements of road system affecting
traffic operation
• Improvement of traffic facilities in existing towns
and so on.
Objects of Traffic Engineering

• To achieve smooth and easy flow of traffic at intersections


• To develop methods for improvement in general and for solving
specific problems in particular
• To have safe, convenient, rapid and economic transport of
persons and goods
• To improve the speeds of vehicles
• To increase the traffic carrying capacity of roads
• To make the streets safe for the movement of both, pedestrians
and vehicles
• To reduce delays in road journeys
• To reduce the chances of road accidents to a minimum
• To remove traffic congestion
Traffic Survey or Study
Aims of traffic survey:
• To analyse the road accidents and to find out road elements
contributing to their occurrence
• To determine the facilities provided on road and to suggest
the measures to improve the
• To get data for suitable geometric design of various
components of roads
• To obtain the knowledge of the nature of traffic at present
and to forecast its future trend
• To provide suitable parking facilities
• To suggest controlling measures for speed
Types of Traffic Survey

• Accident survey

• Origin and destination survey

• Parking survey

• Spot speed survey

• Speed and delay survey

• Traffic volume survey


Accident Survey

The investigations to be carried out during an accident


survey include the following items:
• Details of vehicles such as registration number, type of
vehicle, loading details.
• Estimation of cost of accident
• General data such as time , date, person involved, etc.
• Location of the accident
• Nature of accident including injuries, damages etc
• Primary causes of accident
• Road and traffic conditions at the site of accident.
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