Transportation or transport engineering is science that focuses on the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods. Transportation professionals, a specialty within the civil engineering discipline, are responsible for planning, designing, and operating streets and highways, transit systems, airports, railroads, ports, and harbors.
Driving simulation systems enable the transportation specialists it the areas of:
- Urban planning
- Route assignment
- Land use forecasting
- Peak demand design
- Road and facilities sizing
- Road geometry
- Intersection design and traffic flow
- Traffic engineering
- Road signs, signals, markings and toll controls
- Intelligent transportation systems
- advanced traveler information systems
- advanced traffic control systems
- vehicle infrastructure integration
- Flora and fauna obstacles and impact
- Environmental issues
- Weather
- Lighting
- Cyclists, pedestrians and slow moving vehicles
Traffic and transportation engineers can leverage the driving simulator to study projected traffic flows, alternative roadways, infrastructure, and other planning factors. Driving scenarios can be designed to encompass roadways that integrate with tunnels, bridges, airports, rail, mass transit and advance transportation systems. Find out more…
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