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.
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.
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materiale didattico
Specifically, the lectures concern:
• Transport systems
• Demand and supply
• Design of infrastructures
• Highway Capacity Manual – Exercises
• Transport supply model: graph construction
• Four steps demand model
• Emission model: origin/destination model
• Distributional model: uniform factor model, average factor model, Detroit model, gravitational model
• Route choice model
• Algorithms to compute the minimum path: Bellman teorem and Dijkstra model
• Assignment model
• Benefit/cost analysis
• Exercises with Excel and EMME software
• Project with Excel and EMME software
Programma
Transport system supply, networks, graphs and volume-delay functions. Level of service (LOS). Transport demand models, origin-destination matrix, sample survey methods. Traffic assignment model. Benefits-costs analysis. The course is characterized by the adoption of a software for the macro simulation of the transport systems.Specifically, the lectures concern:
• Transport systems
• Demand and supply
• Design of infrastructures
• Highway Capacity Manual – Exercises
• Transport supply model: graph construction
• Four steps demand model
• Emission model: origin/destination model
• Distributional model: uniform factor model, average factor model, Detroit model, gravitational model
• Route choice model
• Algorithms to compute the minimum path: Bellman teorem and Dijkstra model
• Assignment model
• Benefit/cost analysis
• Exercises with Excel and EMME software
• Project with Excel and EMME software
Testi Adottati
Lecture notes provided by the professorBibliografia Di Riferimento
“Transportation Systems Analysis. Models and Applications” (E. Cascetta, Springer, 2009) “Sistemi di trasporto: tecnica e economia” (G. Cantarella, Utet Giuridica, 2009)Modalità Erogazione
.Modalità Frequenza
Not mandatory.Modalità Valutazione
Final oral test aimed at assessing acquired skills., three questions will be submitted to the candidate and the final evaluation will be based on the assessment of the project.