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Covering all modes of transport; air, land, and sea for both passenger and freight.

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Multi-modal

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Encompassing the problems and viewpoints of government, private industry, and public.

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Multi-sector

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Ranging across a spectrum of issues that includes national and international policy, planning of regional system, the location and design of specific facilities, carrier management issues, and regulatory, institutional and financial policies.

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Multi-problem

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Aiming at national and regional economic development, urban development, environment quality, and social quality, as well as service to users and financial and economic feasibility.

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Multi-objective

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Drawing on the theories and methods of engineering, economics, operations research, political science, psychology, other natural, and social sciences, management and law.

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Multi-disciplinary

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composed of traced paths on which are bound vehicles. They have an average level of physical constrains linked to the types of locomotives and a low gradient is required, particularly for freight.

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Rail transportation

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large consumers of space with the lowest level of physical constraints among transportation modes. They are mainly linked to light industries where rapid movements of freight in small batches are the norm

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Road transportation

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practically unlimited as they can be laid on land or underwater.

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Pipelines

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the most effective mode to move large quantities of cargo over long distances.

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Maritime transportation

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has been accommodating growing quantities of high value freight and is playing a growing role in global logistics.

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Air transportation

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Concerns a variety of modes used in combination so that the respective advantages of each mode are better exploited.

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Intermodal transportation

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the term describes a rural, lesser traveled way

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road

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denotes urban roadway.

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street

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refers to a major rural traveled way; more recently it has been used for a road, in either a rural or urban area, where points of entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled.

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Highway

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An access-controlled road with direct user charges

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tollway

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16
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The Father of Modern Road Building

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Trésaguet

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The President and Founder of the Institute of Civil Engineer

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Telford

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his total structural reliance on broken stone represented the largest paradigm shift in the history of road pavements.

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McAdam

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The first engineered and planned road in the United States

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Lancaster Turnpike

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also known as the National Pike, was an even more notable road-building feat

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The Cumberland Road

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a mixture of bitumen and stone

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Asphalt

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a mixture of cement and stone

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concrete

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He codified the specifications for asphalt mixes and developed two forms of asphalt

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Richardson

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a horizontal structure supported by in situ natural material

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Pavement

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the single most important element in pavement performance and involves handling existing watercourses, removing water from the pavement surface, and controlling underground water in the pavement structure

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Drainage

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a sheltered area of the sea in which vessels could be launched, built or taken for repair; or could seek refuge in time of storm; or provide for loading and unloading of cargo and passengers.

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Harbors

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Natural formations affording safe discharge facilities for ships on sea coasts, in the form of creeks and basins, are called natural harbors.

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Natural Harbors

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This type of harbor is protected on sides by headlands protection and it requires man-made protection only at the entrance.

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Semi-Natural Harbors

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It is an area protected from the effect of waves either by breakwaters or by dredging.

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Artificial Harbors

30
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A deep navigable channel with a protective natural bank or shoal to seaward.

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Natural Roadsteads

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A confined area naturally enclosed by islands as in a creek if available

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Circumscribed Natural Roadstead

32
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These may be created suitably by constructing a breakwater or wall parallel to the coaster curvilinear from the coast.

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Artificial Roadsteads

33
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Its locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water, for commercial demand, and for shelter from wind and waves.

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Port

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is an intermediate stop for a ship on its sailing itinerary. At these ports, cargo ships may take on supplies or fuel, as well as unloading and loading cargo while cruise liners have passengers get on or off ship.

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Port of call

35
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the country’s largest oil port and a major Ro-Ro terminal

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Batangas International Port or locally known as the Batangas Pier

36
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It is one of the busiest, largest, historical and most important of ports in the Philippines

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Port of Subic

37
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The busiest seaport in the Philippines in terms of annual passengers. The largest domestic port in the Philippines

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Port of Cebu

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the most powerful force acting on harbor barriers and against which the engineer has to contend

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sea wave

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Refers to the protective barrier constructed to enclose harbors and to keep the harbor waters undisturbed by the effect of heavy and strong seas.

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Breakwaters

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It is a heterogeneous assemblage of natural rubble, undressed stone blocks, rip rap, supplemented in many cases by artificial blocks of huge bulk and weight, the whole being deposited without any regard to bond or bedding.

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Heap or mound breakwater

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A solid superstructure that consists of a Quay protected by a parapet on the sea face isconstructed on top of the rubble mound.

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Mound with superstructure

42
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a big regular wall raised to construct a harbor basin on solid natural or/and artificial foundation to resist the forces and their components generated by incoming water and waves.

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Upright wall breakwater

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Platforms or landing places are necessary for ships to come, close enough to the shore, for purposes of embarkation, disembarkation, etc. at the same time.

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Wharves

44
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The structures which are built perpendicular or oblique to the shore of a river or sea.

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Piers

45
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Wharves along and parallel to the’ shore, are generally called quays and their protection walls

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Quays

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These are the structures in the form of piled projections and they are built out from the shore to deep water and they may be constructed either for a navigable river or in the sea.

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Jetties

47
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The cushion which is provided on the face of jetty for ships to come in contact

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Fender

48
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It is a lofty structure popularly built of masonry or reinforced concrete in the shape of a tall tower on a high pedestal.

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Lighthouse

49
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Small ships displacing about 500 tons are used for this purpose.

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Light ships

50
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Any prominent object, natural or artificially constructed, easily identifiable and capable of being used as a means to indicate and guide in navigation

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Beacons

51
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floating structures of small size employed for demarcation like entrances, approach channel used for indicating direction changes in means of alignment.

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Buoys

52
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a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of up to 62 kilometers per hour (kph) or less than 34 nautical miles per hour (knots).

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Tropical Depression (TD)

53
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a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 62 to 88 kph or 34 - 47 knots.

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Tropical Storm (TS)

54
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a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 87 to 117 kph or 48 - 63 knots.

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Severe Tropical Storm (STS)

55
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a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 87 to 117 kph or 48 - 63 knots.

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Severe Tropical Storm (STS)

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a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed of 118 to 184 kph or 64 - 99 knots.

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Typhoon (TY)

57
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a tropical cyclone with maximum wind speed exceeding 185 kph or more than 100 knots.

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Super Typhoon (STY)

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waves generated by storms, which occur outside area of observation.

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Swells

59
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waves formed by moving ship or boats

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Wakes

60
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the abnormal rise of the sea level that occurs when a typhoon passes by.

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Storm surge

61
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refers to the prevailing winds which are seasonal blowing in one direction over
part of the year and in the opposite direction the remainder of the year.

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Monsoon

62
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Horses and camels are domesticated and used for transport.

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4000 BC

63
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River boats are invented

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3500 BC

64
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Paved roads are built by the Romans

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312 BC

65
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First hot air balloon launched

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1783

66
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First steam-powered railway train is built by George Stephenson

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1814

67
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The earliest bicycle is made

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1816

68
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First successful airship built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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1900

69
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Wright Brothers fly the first motor-driven aeroplane

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1904

70
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First man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, launched into orbit

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1957

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