As huge as our transportation system is, it's natural to wonder who makes it work and how. There are hundreds of thousands of transportation workers performing thousands of jobs every day. There are truck drivers, road construction workers, transportation engineers, civil engineers, road maintenance workers, trucking company dispatchers, tug boat pilots, and air traffic controllers, just to name a few.

In addition, there are industrial engineers, aeronautical engineers, safety engineers, dispatchers, sign installers, lighting installers, airline pilots, bus drivers, ticket sellers, and the list goes on and on. Just as the transportation system itself is huge, the number of jobs and the people who perform them is huge as well. There are more jobs in transportation then we could possibly cover here. However, we will expose you to many of the occupations associated with this field.