traffic engineering

noun

: engineering dealing with the design of streets and control of traffic

traffic engineer noun

Examples of traffic engineering in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Lane closures are typically between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. daily, reported Tony Wang, city traffic engineering manager. —Jim Drummond, Oc Register, 17 July 2025

These studies come from entirely disparate fields and have no researchers in common – one study takes a traffic engineering viewpoint, and the other looks at human safety implications. —Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

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

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for traffic engineering

• bioengineering
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• careering
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• inhering
• prehearing
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• clearing