Transportation Engineering
Highways & Roads

Transportation engineers are involved in the planning and design of highways, rural roads and freeways.

Sherwood Park Freeway (Wye Road), east side of Edmonton
courtesy of Alberta Infrastructure
   
Interchange - TransCanada Highway outside Canmore
Courtesy of Dwight Carter, P.Eng., UMA Engineering

This road was built through a lava field on Maui.

 
Plummer's Road in rural Alberta

Transportation engineers use their skills to plan and design our city streets. Some are quite intricate like the traffic circle on the left and some are quite ordinary, but they all must be designed with the safety of the travellers in mind.

photo courtesy of Keith Maxwell

 
photo courtesy of John Morrall
    




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