72763 - INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The main goals of this course are: (i) to review and explain the theoretical foundations of methods that are necessary to understand, apply and evaluate the various scientific and technological approaches which claim to improve the sustainability of transportation; (ii) to present examples of the aforementioned approaches such as alternative fuels and propulsion methods, innovative transport systems, and various taxation schemes to include external costs and attempts to change awareness. A main purpose is to make students capable to analyzing critically the potential of new approaches to sustainable transportation, rather than to give a complete coverage of all known methods proposed to date. The student knows how to study the problems related with the vulnerability of road infrastructures, the risk analysis of in-ground constructions, the verification of existing roads and the design of new roads. He is also able to prepare maintenance plans and safety plans for roads and galleries.

Contenuti

The programme of the Sustainable Transportation Engineering (STE) module:
includes the following themes:
* Overview
* Vehicles
* Transport network
* Transport demand
* Environmental, social and economical impact of transport
* Sustainable transport planning
* Innovation in Automobile technologies
* Innovation in Public transport technologies
* Case studies

Uncertainty and Risk in Transportation Systems (URTS) module:
I. Overview of Multimodal Transportation Events of Interest (Natural Disaster Events, Unintentional Events, Attacks on Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure).
II. Review of basic principles, Uncertainty, Probability and Risk.
III. Road Safety Management Concepts – Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on Road Infrastructure Safety Management.
IV. Road Safety Impact Assessment for Infrastructure Projects, Road Safety Audit.
V. Safety ranking and management of the road network in operation, Safety Inspections.
VI. Risks in Tunnels - Directive 2004/54/EC f the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network.
VII. Quantitative Risk Analysis Model
VIII. F/N Curves for the Societal Risk
IX. Pavement Management System - Road maintenance planning.
X. Life-Cycle Benefit/Cost Analysis under Certainty, Risk, and Uncertainty.

Testi/Bibliografia

Sustainable Transportation Engineering (STE) module:

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

WHO.Particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide.
Technical report, World Health Organization, Bonn, Germany,2003.
www.euro.who.int/document/e79097.pdf.

L.C. Den Boer and A. Schroten. Traffic noise reduction in europe: Health
effects, social costs and technical and policy options to reduce road and
rail traffic noise. Technical report, CE Delft, the Netherlands, 2007.
http://www.thepep.org/ClearingHouse/docfiles/Traffic.Noise.Reduction.in.Europe.pdf.


Uncertainty and Risk in Transportation Systems (URTS) module:

Class notes
Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on Road Infrastructure Safety Management
Directive 2004/54/EC f the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network

Metodi didattici

Uncertainty and Risk in Transportation Systems (URTS) module:

Class notes
Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on Road Infrastructure Safety Management
Directive 2004/54/EC f the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network

The Sustainable Transportation Engineering module relies on the following teaching methods:
1.) Lecture, 3h per week.
2.) Exercises, 1h per week.
3.) Extensive lecture notes which are made available on-line.
4.) One planning exercise as group work to put the acquired theory into practice.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Assessment methods of the Sustainable Transportation Engineering (STE) module:

It is required to perform the planning exercise.

At the end of the course there is a written exam:

* There will be 3 problems to be answered by written in 2 hours.

* The first problem is a collection of multiple choice questions/answers,
covering the material of the entire course .
Each question has one or more correct answers.
Correctly ticked answers will result in one point, incorrectly ticked answer
will result in minus half a point. The minimum of the multiple choice problem is zero points the maximum is 8 points.


* The remaining two problems will be calculations, covering the subjects of the exercises.
The maximum points can only be obtained if all results are correct.
Usually problems are divided into sub-problems where the
number of points for each sub-problem is indicated.

* Allowed is a non-programmable pocket calculator and one sheet with hand-written notes
(front and rear side can both be used).

Assessment methods of the Uncertainty and Risk in Transportation Systems (URTS) module:

Written test.


The total points of the integrated course Infrastructure systems is composed of 2/3 from the STE exam and 1/3 from the URTS exam.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

A notebook is recommended for downloading and viewing lecture notes. Some exercises require Matlab(R).

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Joerg Schweizer

Consulta il sito web di Andrea Simone