Title Feasibility Study on Accreditation Policy by Professional Traffic Engineer
Dept Transportation Safety Division
Year 2008
Month
Price
Summary The engineering industry has entered the international era since joining the WTO international organization
in addition to gradually opening up the domestic engineering market, it also expects the domestic engineering professionals to be able to have more effective competition in the international engineering market. The domestic engineering market competition will become more intense after formally joining the APEC Engineer organization. Therefore, how to effectively upgrade the professional competence of the domestic professional engineers will become an important and serious topic of the engineering industry. The Professional Engineers Act was initially formulated and promulgated on October 27, 1947. 32 professional practice branches were categorized referring to “Scope of Professional Practice by Professional Engineers of Various Engineering Branches” amended and promulgated on January 29, 2000, covering a variety of specialties in each scope of professional services. However, the competent authority in charge of professional engineers, either at the central government level or the municipal (county, or city) government level, does not have the jurisdiction of enforcement rules set force by other authorities in charge of the relevant industries. The competent authority in charge of professional engineers was not able to do integration for the interfaces of the professional scope involving professional engineers of two or more engineering branches. Nor does the central competent authority have ever comprehensively formulated any regulations governing professional engineers in all professional practices.
  The branch and scope of professional practice for “traffic engineer” was added and promulgated in 1989. Numbers of nationals have satisfactorily passed professional engineer examination and qualified for the professional engineer certificate, with an accumulated number of about 10 each year. On the contrary, the number of licensed professional engineers who practice in traffic engineering has not increased at the same growth rate, which reflects the traffic engineering industry lacking compensation in this marketplace.
  In an effort to upgrade engineering quality or safeguard public health and safety, “A study of traffic incidents prevention-short term and mid term strategic plan” has been conducted by the Ministry of Transportation And Communications in 2006 promoting the system for professional engineer certification for traffic related industry: including traffic planning, detailed design of signs, signals, and traffic control devices, research, analysis, evaluation, appraisal, project management and engineering services. All public constructions referred to in the preceding categories are subject to certification by professional engineers in the traffic engineering branch. The system for traffic engineer certification for public constructions could entrust a professional engineer who practices traffic engineering to perform engineering services. The respective responsibilities for the certification may be therefore ensured as well.
Post date 2008/04/01
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