Highway and Transportation Engineering

Transportation

The act or process of moving people or things from one place to another.

Highways

The dominant mode of most passenger and freight movements

Highway Engineering

an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.

Traffic Engineering

branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways

MESOPOTAMIANS, HAYANS, ASTECS AND INCAS

For movement of armies and for defense against invasion. For transport of food and good.

ROMANS

discovered cement THROUGH LIMESTONES. expanded their vast through extensive road networks

JEROME TRESAGUET

Scottish engineer, “Father of Modern Road Building””, who introduced new methods of construction and maintenance of stone roads.

JEROME TRESAGUET

he improved the crown, drainage and the grade of the road and reduced depth of broken stones by 25 cm.

THOMAS TELFORD

President and founder of the Institute of Civil Engineers who made improvements from the methods of Tresaguet

THOMAS TELFORD

His road foundation is made of stones having 3” minimum thickness, 5” breadth and 7” height. he employed a flat sub grade”

ADAM LOUDON MCADAM

Scottish engineer who developed the Macadam Road Concept. he discovered that massive foundations of rock upon rock were unnecessary. he asserted that the native soil alone would support road traffic and traffic upon it.

ELI BLAKE

he invented the first stone crusher in Europe in 1858

AVELING AND PORTER

a company who introduced the steam road roller weighing 30 tons in France

Early Saxon laws

Mandatory Duties of people to:  repair roads and bridges  to repair castles and garrisons  to aid repel invasions

EARLY 1900’S

Transportation is dependent on trails, water ways, railroads, earth roads and partially gravelled roads.

Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo

provided for the creation of four (4) Departments in the government, one of which was the DEPARTMENT OF WAR AND PUBLIC WORKS who functions as the builder and maintainer of roads, bridges and other public works structures

AMERICAN ERA

initiated the development of roadways  Macadam road type was introduced

WORLD WAR II

rehabilitation thru payments made by the Japanese government and other grants received from US

Department of Commerce and Police

What is created during 1902 which gave birth to Bureau of Engineering (Construction of Public works) and Bureau of Architecture (Construction of Public Buildings)

1910

the first appearance of motor vehicles in the Philippine Highways.

1921

To raise such needed funds, motor vehicles and drivers plying the highways were required to register with fee

1954

In relation to road and bridge construction and maintenance, the Bureau of Public Highways was created and placed under the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications.

1981 – MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS

merged for a more effective and sustained implementation of infrastructure projects

1960 –1980 (AUTOMOBILE AGE)

Cars are no longer a luxury but a necessary in transporting people and goods. During this decade, roads construction is a matter of priority of the government

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS

the primary engineering and construction arm of the government. They are responsible for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructures such as roads and bridges, flood control systems, water resource development projects and other public works in accordance with national objectives

2022

there were about 13.89 million registered motor vehicles with registration increasing at an average annual rate of 5.93%