hs4-transportation-engineering-overview.ppt

Ppt on transportation

1. Transportation
Engineering
Name
Title
Company
School, Date, or Other information on
where you are making the presentation

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Outline
•What is an engineer?
•Different types of engineers
•Civil engineers
•Transportation engineers
•Education
•New solutions
•Site transportation planning

3. 3
What is an Engineer?
•Engineers are problem solvers—people
who make things work better, more
efficiently, quicker, and less expensively
•Engineers apply math and science to
create something of value from our
natural resources

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Different Types of Engineers
•Chemical
•Electrical & Computer
•Mechanical
•Industrial
•
And Civil Engineers!
Add a picture for
each discipline
and have it
appear with the
discipline…

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Civil Engineers
•Structures
•Hydraulics/Hydrology
•Wastewater/Environmental
•Geotechnical
•Transportation
Add a picture for
each discipline
and have it
appear with the
discipline…

6. The Transportation
Profession
Add pictures here of some
different modes of
transportation or other pictures
related to transportation…

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Transportation Engineers
•What do Transportation Engineers do?
–No ER, West Wing, L.A. Law that glamorizes
the transportation profession
–Transportation Engineers are, however,
making a difference all around us

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Transportation Engineers
Add a picture here of a train
and talk about how most
people think that
Transportation Engineers drive
trains…

9. 9
Transportation Engineers
Add pictures here of
construction and other things
that transportation engineers
do…

10. 10
Transportation Engineers
Insert local pictures or videos here
– I used crash videos from TTI

11. 11
Transportation Engineers
Insert local pictures or videos here
– I used crash videos from TTI

12. 12
Transportation Engineers
Insert local pictures or videos here
– I used crash videos from TTI

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Transportation Engineers
I include a series of 4 or 5 funny
signs to talk about some of the
things Transportation Engineers
do and to get the students to
think about the signs…

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Transportation Engineers

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What is Transportation?
•Streets, highways, and transit systems
that allow people and goods to move
safely and efficiently
–Backbone for a strong economy
–Key contributor in quality of life
•How many types of transportation can
you name?
–Write down on a piece of paper
all of the types of transportation
you can think of

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Transportation Modes
Air
PipelineWater
Surface
Add a picture for
each mode and
have it appear
with the mode…

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Surface Modes
Highways &
Streets
Bicycle
Pedestrian
Transit
Add a picture for
each mode and
have it appear
with the mode…

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Freight
•Truck and railroad:
–Key component in the economy
–Provides goods
and services
Photo credit: Dan Kuhn, UDOT
Add a picture of
freight
movement…

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Air
•Dual purpose
–Movement of people and goods
–Creation/expansion
of business and
industry
Photo credit: www.airliners.net
Used with permission.
Add a picture of
air movement…

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Water
•Water transportation
–Primarily for freight movement
–Bulky commodities with low cost per unit
•National system
–Waterways
–Lakes
–Oceans
–Ports
Add a picture of
water movement…

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Transportation Facts Nationwide
•1.6 million hours per day stuck in traffic
•Avg. person spends one hour per day in
their car
•160,000 traffic signals
in the US
•Cost of congestion is
$40 Billion per year
Add a picture of
congestion…

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Transportation in Utah
•Transportation is growing at a rate 2x
that of population
–Rush hour today in Salt Lake City – 1 hr
–5 to 7 years from now – 2 hrs
–10 years from now – 3 hrs
•90 minutes to travel from
Provo to Salt Lake City
Add a picture of
congestion and
modify the
information to
match your state…

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Transportation in Utah
•Solutions?
–Optimize existing
infrastructure
–Construct new facilities
–More widespread use
of advanced technology
Add a picture of a
TOC…

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Transportation Careers
There are 2 different videos that
can be used – this is the long one,
the next is the short one – pick one
and then delete the other (and this
text!)

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Transportation Careers

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Education
•Math
•Science
•Physics
•What else?
Add pictures that
are educational
centered…

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What Else?
•Communications
•Writing
•Problem Solving
•Creativity
•Integrity
Add pictures
related to these
items…

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Why Engineering?
•You get to see what you build
•Help the community
•Creativity
•Latest technology
•Travel
•High demand
•Good living
Add a picture of a
fun engineering
project that you
have worked on…

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New Solutions
Insert local pictures or videos here
– I used simulation model videos

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Questions…