How to Use traffic engineering in a Sentence

traffic engineering

noun
  • Merrell acknowledged that there would be some traffic engineering challenges to work out.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The city is in need of an in-house traffic engineering expert and development pressures are unyielding.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Parrott, the founder of a traffic engineering firm, has been in the House of Delegates since 2011.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Students had the chance to ride to school with members of the city’s police, traffic engineering department and even Star Wars characters.
    — Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • That information is meshed with more data about infrastructure projects, weather, and transit and traffic engineering.
    — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • The other two adults, a man in the city’s traffic engineering department and a woman who was in a wheelchair during the incident, are in stable condition, the mayor said.
    — Charlotte Slovin, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The traffic engineering position became vacant in March 2020.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Still, traffic remains a legitimate quality of life issue for many, and the involvement of a company as influential as Google raises the profile of traffic engineering.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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 sprawling position oversees Muni, parking, traffic engineering, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
  • Public safety, which includes fire and fire-medical, police, road preservation, traffic engineering and sanitation would all be impacted by staff reductions; adversely impacting our safe city status.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • 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 city’s video analytics platform is where video footage from closed-caption TV cameras using computer vision and artificial intelligence for public safety, traffic engineering, and urban planning is analyzed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Apr. 2019
  • James Moore, a USC traffic engineering expert, explained that a high volume of cars using an intersection probably means it’s been optimized for car movement — often to the detriment of buses, pedestrians and cyclists.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The municipality’s traffic engineering department ordered 200 of the panhandling signs.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Google’s foray into the field is one of many ongoing attempts to modernize traffic engineering by incorporating GPS app data, connected cars and artificial intelligence.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Supervisors directed staff to work with the developer, Serrano Associates, to conduct a supplemental traffic engineering analysis.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026
  • PennDOT senior manager for traffic engineering & safety division, Sharang Malaviya, said there have been six crashes at the intersection since 2020, but Einstein's death was the most serious.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 18 June 2026

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