Traffic plan
Introduction
Traffic engineering or transit is a branch of transportation engineering that deals with the planning, design and operation of traffic on streets, highways and highways, their networks, infrastructure, adjacent lands and their relationship with the different means of transportation") to achieve safe, efficient and convenient mobility for both people and goods.
Generalities
Transportation and road engineering is understood as the set of knowledge, abilities, skills, professional practices, principles and values necessary to satisfy social needs regarding the mobility of people and goods.
Transportation and road engineering is a specialty of the engineering profession, based on the application of physical sciences, mathematics, technology and ingenuity in general, for the benefit of humanity.
The traffic engineer, instead of dealing with the construction of new infrastructure, is charged with the sizing and design of the infrastructure to achieve efficient traffic flow and the evaluation of traffic systems to optimize the use of that road infrastructure. Among the traffic control elements are traffic signals, traffic lights, panels, sensors, etc., in order to achieve safe and efficient operation of the road infrastructure.
Functions of the traffic engineer
Design
The traffic engineer is the one in charge of the design of:.
• - road intersections.
• - traffic light plans.
• - demarcation of the roads.
• - vertical signage.
Evaluation of road infrastructure performance
Any road infrastructure is susceptible to being evaluated to know how good a service it is providing. For example, it may happen that high demand on a road causes long delays. The transportation engineer, through the service level methodology"), can rate the quality of service that this road is presenting from A (the best) to F (the worst).