Traffic Engineering

Traffic Engineering: is a branch of transportation engineering that deals with planning, geometric design, and traffic operation of roads, streets, and highways, their networks, terminals, and relationships with other modes of transportation.

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Highway Functional Classification It is the process by which streets and highways are grouped into classes or systems according to the character of services they are intended to provide, i.e. the type of travel associated with the road. The classification of highways is important for: - Design purposes to enable the road designer to relate the structure and design standards to different roads under different classes. - Planning purposes to provide a basic long-term plan where different properties could be assigned to different classes - Administration needs.