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92868 - Transport System Design and Planning

Academic Year 2026/2027

                
                        Docente:
                        Joerg Schweizer
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        CEAR-03/B
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        In-person learning (entirely or partially)
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Civil Engineering (cod. 6708)

                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Sep 16, 2026 to Dec 02, 2026

Learning outcomes

The course of Transport Systems Design and Planning aims to provide students with the basic tools for simulation and functional design of transport systems, by modeling transport demand and supply and their interactions. Acquisition of specific knowledge is expected in order to address the typical problems in the perspective of transportation systems engineering, by providing deep knowledge in transport system modeling and simulation on the macro-, meso-, and microscopic level, supported by case studies and software tools.

Course contents

Introduction (Analyzing the transport systems and its impacts on the environment, characteristics of macroscopi, mesoscopic, microscopic and nanoscopic models, transport system design and evaluation process)
Supply modes (modelling vehicle types, trajectories, microscopic car follower models, stochastic flows, queue models).
Demand models (trips, routes, demand flows, synthetic population, activity-based and agent-based models)
Assignment models (macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic models, stochastic assignments, dynamic and stochastic user equilibrium, special assignment methods).
Particular microscopic models (Scheduled public transport, taxis and other on-demand services, autonomous cars, platooning, personal rapid transit)

Readings/Bibliography

E. Cascetta. Transportation systems engineering: theory and methods. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston/Dordrecht/London, 2001. (Italian version available).

For the lecture and exercises the microsimulation environment hybridPY will be used. A bries description can be found here:
https://github.com/eclipse-sumo/sumo/blob/main/docs/web/docs/Contributed/hybridPY/index.md