TRANSP-ENGINEERING----1

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
Civil engineers working in this specialty build facilities to ensure safe and efficient movement of both people and goods. They specialty in designing and maintaining all types of transportation facilities, highways and streets, mass transit systems, railroads and airfields ports and harbors. Transportation engineers apply technological knowledge as well as consideration of the economic, political. And social factors in designing each project. They work closely with urban planners since the quality of the community is directly related to the quality of the transportation system.