They may work primarily in design, research, testing, marketing, management, or regulation and oversight. At the graduate level, the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering offers an M.S. and Ph.D. with an emphasis in Transportation Engineering or Geometronics. Transportation Engineers plan and manage systems for moving people, goods, and materials safely and efficiently over land, through the air, and across the sea. They plan and manage urban and regional transportation systems and plan and design highway, air, and rail transportation facilities. They use information about population distribution, land use, and economics as well as data from remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, and geographical information systems to plan transportation routes and systems.
Transportation engineering requires a good background in mathematics, statistics, and economics.