Traffic engineering

Criticism

Traffic engineering has been criticized due to its overemphasis on traffic flow and underemphasis on safety.

Books such as Confessions of a Recovering Engineer or Killed by a Traffic Engineer painfully describes this disconnect to the values of people.

America Has No Transportation Engineers by Steffen Berr points this out by arguing that American transportation engineering lacks holistic approach but focuses on civil engineering side of the engineering. The Staggering Ignorance of Traffic Engineers is a podcast episode on this (The Urbanist Agenda). **

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