Transport Systems Design is a course of the Transportation sector, given within the three years of the Degree in Civil Engineering. This degree aims at providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
As part of the three-year degree, the course of Transport Systems Design provides the fundamental skills for the design of a Transport System and its economic analysis.
Students will get the necessary skills: 1) to define the models of mobility demand, transport supply and vehicular flows; 2) to dimension a road infrastructure; 3) to assess the levels of service offered by the transport system; 4) to identify possible design solutions in order to solve the emerged problems; 5) to verify the operational of the supply/demand system in the reference and project conditions; 6) to carry out the evaluation of the solutions that can be adopted through the cost benefit analysis.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to: 1) use theory and manual elements to evaluate the individual elements of the transport system; 2) use commercial software to simulate the operational of the supply/demand system; 3) operationally carrying out a real case study; 4) evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of the project.