Highway Engineering: An Introduction

Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them.We depend on highways for the movement of goods, for travel to and from work, for services, for social and recreational purposes, and for many other activities necessary to the functioning of our complex society. The planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of highways depend largely on the efforts of the highway engineer, who must translate the desires of the people for better highway transportation into physical being.

This is the first course in a series on highway engineering. In this 1-hour interactive online course you will cover a general introduction to highway engineering. The course begins with a historical look at how highways developed in the U.S. and then moves on to a review of the functional and administrative classifications of highways today. It wraps up with a brief discussion on state and local road systems.