Transport Technology and Economics 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 Bachelor's degree program, the Transport Technology and Economics course provides the fundamental skills for the design, construction and management of the main transport systems. The technical efficiency of the system and its interaction with the other components are developed both in technical terms and in terms of economic convenience.
Students will acquire expertise in transport technology and economics such as 1) Theory of traffic flow, 2) propulsion units, 3) Vehicle motion, 4) wheelset components, 5) electric and diesel traction systems, 6) brake systems, 7) railway infrastructure, 8) commercial speed.
At the end of the course the students will be able to 1) analyse and design the functional characteristics of the elements of a rail- system (infrastructures and services), 2) identify the interactions between vehicle and infrastructure; 3) computation of forces acting on a vehicle, 4) identify flow diagrams, 5) perform a cost-benefit analysis with regard to a transport system.