DEVELOPING MORE THAN TECHNICAL SKILLS IN A TRAFFIC ENGINEER

This paper reviews the astounding growth of vehicular travel over the past century, the consequent provision of more and better roads, and the improvement in traffic operations through advancement of the technical aspects of traffic engineering. The author advocates that in the future, non-technical skills like management, leadership, financial acumen, communication, negotiation/arbitration, public relations, political survival and vision will become more important to traffic engineers than technical skills. The paper goes further to explain the need for and benefit from each of these skills, as well as the key role of the transportation manager in helping traffic engineers acquire them.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Turner, D S
• Conference:
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers 2003 Annual Meeting and Exhibit (held in conjunction with ITE District 6 Annual Meeting)
  • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Date: 2003-8-24 to 2003-8-27
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Improvements; Operations; Public relations; Technical assistance; Traffic; Traffic engineers; Travel; Vehicles
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973444
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 5 2004 12:00AM