a discipline which includes the design of highways and pedestrian ways, the study and application of traffic statistics, and the environmental aspects of the transportation of goods and people
traffic engineering in American English
noun
a branch of civil engineering concerned with the design and construction of streets and roads that will best facilitate traffic movement
Derived forms
traffic engineer
Word origin
[1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, boondoggle, cloverleaf, logical positivism, old school tie
Examples of 'traffic engineering' in a sentence
traffic engineering
The dangers of cycling have been persistently increased by well-meaning traffic engineering schemes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The field is fairly specialised but there is the possibility of branching into traffic engineering or transport planning.