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3. Answer the questions:
1. What is transportation engineering?
2. Transportation engineering is a major component of civil engineering and electronic engineering disciplines, isn’t it?
3. What activities does transportation engineering involve?
4. Should a transportation engineer take into account auto ownership?
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Self-Training Work
Text 2
Read the text to yourself and try to understand what it is about.
2. Scan through the text. Note all the words and phrases you don’t know. Look them in the English-Russian dictionary.
Translate the text in written form.
TRAFFIC ENGINEERING (TRANSPORTATION)
Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways. It focuses mainly on research for safe and efficient traffic flow, such as road geometry, sidewalks and crosswalks, segregated cycle facilities, shared lane marking, traffic signs, road surface markings and traffic lights. Traffic engineering deals with the functional part of transportation system, except the infrastructures provided. Traffic engineering is closely associated with other disciplines:
Transport engineering
Pavement engineering
Bicycle transportation engineering
Highway engineering
Transportation planning
Urban planning
Human factors engineering.
Typical traffic engineering projects involve designing traffic control device installations and modifications, including traffic signals, signs, and pavement markings. However, traffic engineers also consider traffic safety by investigating locations with high crash rates and developing countermeasures to reduce crashes. Traffic flow management can be short-term (preparing construction traffic control plans, including detour plans for pedestrian and vehicular traffic) or long-term (estimating the impacts of proposed commercial developments on traffic patterns). Increasingly, traffic problems are being addressed by developing systems for intelligent transportation systems, often in conjunction with other engineering disciplines, such as computer engineering and electrical engineering.
Conversational Practice
1. Remember some of the words and expressions to read the dialogue:
Customer Relationship Management – управление взаимоотношениями с клиентами
to hitch-hike – передвигаться автостопом
a jovial person – позитивный человек
a deadline – установленный срок
a prudent step – разумный шаг
2. Read Sample Job Interview Dialogue:
Interviewer: “Tell me about yourself?”
Interviewee: “I am a traffic engineer with 4 years of experience in ‘Road Force’ with expertise in Customer Relationship Management process. Leaving aside that, I am a jovial person who loves to hitch-hike and indulge in white water rafting whenever time permits. All in all, a team person who loves to face challenges and deliver on deadlines!”
Interviewer: “Can you briefly explain what role you played in Customer Relationship Management process for ‘Road Force’?”
Interviewee: “Yes, sure. I was a team lead while designing the Customer Relationship Management project for Sales Force. The project was regarding international intelligent transportation
systems. With a team of 15 members I was able to successfully affect our management strategy and helped the clients achieve
a growth of 30% in sales.”
Interviewer: “Great! So, how do you thing you fit in our
organization?”
Interviewee: “I wish to make a career in transport engineering industry and keeping in mind my long term goals, I believe that associating with this organization will be the most prudent step. In here, I would surely be able to further utilize my engineering skills in the most effective manner and also, obtain a chance of acquiring newer skills.”
3. Answer the questions:
1. Where did the interviewee work?
2. Why did he decide to apply this vacancy?
3. What were his ambitions?
4. What can you say about his character?
5. Have you ever had such an interview?