How to Use traffic engineering in a Sentence

traffic engineering

noun
  • Parrott, the founder of a traffic engineering firm, has been in the House of Delegates since 2011.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Unlike most of the mid-atlantic, which seems to be stuck in the infancy of traffic engineering (1960's).
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The roundabouts would consist of two lanes, the inner lane would be used to drive around the roundabout and the outer lane would be used to exit, said Tom Adamczyk, the village’s traffic engineering consultant.
    Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Pat Johnson, the city manager of traffic engineering, said in an interview that Third Street will be the first in a series of streets north of Broadway that will be converted to two-way traffic.
    Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Merrell acknowledged that there would be some traffic engineering challenges to work out.
    John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In general, these kinds of short count studies in traffic engineering only cover a few hours over several days, according to Ozbay.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2022
  • So says Bill Henry, the city's traffic engineering manager.
    Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Brightline officials said signal design plans were provided to all of the traffic engineering departments along the rail corridor and their input was included in the safety features.
    Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Graham Young, deputy chief of traffic, oversaw the department’s second-largest division, which includes traffic engineering, road closures and traffic lights.
    Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2018
  • The traffic engineering position became vacant in March 2020.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 2022
  • By the end of that month, the city government ratified a state of emergency and allocated an extra $2 million for bike safety initiatives, including improving traffic engineering and enforcing cycling rules.
    Byyvonne Lau, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Public Works Department handles everything from street paving, to park maintenance, waste collection, recreation centers, special event permitting, traffic engineering and other tasks.
    Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 1 June 2022
  • The sprawling position oversees Muni, parking, traffic engineering, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
    Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
  • Her professional focus is on traffic engineering, transportation planning, safe and intelligent transportation systems and walking and biking.
    Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The municipality’s traffic engineering department ordered 200 of the panhandling signs.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2022

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