Transportation Engineering 5 min read
Carriage of goods
Carriage of goods, in law, the transportation of goods by land, sea, or air. The relevant law governs the rights, responsibilities, liabilities,…
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Transportation Engineering 6 min read
Air law
Air law, the body of law directly or indirectly concerned with civil aviation. Aviation in this context extends to both heavier-than-air and…
Transportation Engineering 12 min read
Tunnels and underground excavations
Tunnels and underground excavations, horizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature’s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such…
Transportation Engineering 6 min read
Lighthouse
Lighthouse, structure, usually with a tower, built onshore or on the seabed to serve as an aid to maritime coastal navigation, warning mariners of hazards,…
Transportation Engineering 4 min read
Harbours and sea works
Harbours and sea works, harbour also spelled harbor, any part of a body of water and the manmade structures surrounding it…
Transportation Engineering 7 min read
Canals and inland waterways
Canals and inland waterways, natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage. Despite modern technological advances in air and…
Transportation Engineering 3 min read
Bridge
Bridge, structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads. The prototypical bridge is quite simple—two…
Transportation Engineering 3 min read
National and international highway systems
The Romans had realized that a coordinated system of roadways connecting the major areas of their empire would be of…
Transportation Engineering 3 min read
New highways
The parkway The achievement of such a system in the automobile age required a new form of road. This grew from…
Transportation Engineering 3 min read
Changes in finance
From corvée to toll Through the millennia, responsibility for financing and building roads and highways has been both a local…
Transportation Engineering 4 min read
New paving materials
When urban street paving became widespread in the latter half of the 19th century, the common paving materials were hoof-sized stone blocks,…
Transportation Engineering 1 min read
Roads in the age of the automobile
Beginning in the 1840s, the rapid development of railroads brought the construction of lightweight Trésaguet-McAdam roads to a virtual halt.…
