20810170-1 - MARITIME TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURES-A

Nowadays several strategic activities for economic and social development at regional, national and global scale have a crucial role at the land-sea interface where specific facilities support the transfer of goods and passengers. These facilities support the maritime transportation that is the main effective and sustainable mode for long-distance transportation.
New concerns both in terms of design and construction of infrastructures and in terms of management of the functional components of maritime transportation systems have to be considered under advanced and novel paradigms that take into account the particular environmental vulnerability of costal environment.
The main objective of the course is related to the assessment of any interferences between coastal environment and existing as well new infrastructures devoted to the passengers and goods transfer from landside to seaside and reversal.
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Programma

- Overview of transportation engineering with an in-depth analysis on maritime transportation
- Transportation supply models
o Study area
o Zoning
o Graph
- Transportation demand models
o Generation model
o Attraction model
o Distribution model and matrix squaring
- Interaction models of supply and demand
o Assignment models
- Transportation system of access to maritime infrastructure
o Passenger and freight accessibility
- Logistics
o Logistics system
o Logistics platforms
- Types of maritime transport vehicles
o Vessel classification
o Vessel characteristics
o Vessel descriptions
- Types of shipping services:
o Active subjects
o Scheduled or on-demand services
o Hub & spoke - Point-to-Point
o Transhipment models
o Costs
- Intermodal Transportation:
o Road-Rail / Road-Sea / Sea-Sea
o Containers and other types of cargo units for intermodal transportation
- Constituent Elements and Modes of Operation of Ports
o Layout of ports
o Elements of ports
o Vehicular movements in ports
o Types of handling equipment
o Port terminals
o Focus on container/ro-ro/ro-pax terminals
- Maritime routes
o Routes and navigation
o Highways of the sea
- Gigantism
o Ships and ports
o Italian ports
- Port infrastructure performance
o KPIs by Port, Terminal and Vessel



Testi Adottati

Lecture notes provided by the professor.

Bibliografia 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

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Modalità Frequenza

Not mandatory.

Modalità Valutazione

Final oral test aimed at assessing acquired skills, about two questions will be submitted to the candidate.