98215 - Smart Cities Civil Infrastructures

Learning outcomes

At the end of this module, the student will have the methodological, theoretical and empirical skills for planning, design, simulation and performance evaluation of digitally-empowered civil networks infrastructures, with special emphasis on innovation in people mobility, goods transportation and hydraulic networks, in a context of smart and climate neutral cities.

Course contents

Mod.1 – Smart Infrastructures for Urban Mobility – 3 CFU

Prof. Andrea Simone

Mission: to provide a comprehensive education and training on urban mobility systems and infrastructures in order to be ready for the next years challenges

Outcomes: The lessons will deal with 5 macro-categories in each will be showed both the new technologies applied and the models commonly used:

1- Cooperative, Connected and Autonomous Mobility - autonomous driving; connected infrastructures that can properly interact with CAVs in real urban areas

2- Innovative contracts and sharing systems;

3- Urban Mobility, MaaS (Mobility as a Service) platforms;

4- smart-cities and smart-infrastructures

5- active users (e.g. pedestrians, cyclists, ...); persons with disabilities.

Mod. 2 – Smart Infrastructures for Water networks – 3 CFU

Prof.Cristiana Bragalli

Urban water systems framework - Architecture and components of water systems. Objectives and constraints in the design and management for hydraulic operation and to ensure water quality. Resilience Concept of resilience.

Plants management - Objectives and constraints in plants management. Architecture of the remote control system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition). Basic and advanced functions of a SCADA system.

Supply networks management - Tasks of supply networks. Objectives and constraints in the management of supply networks. Instruments for hydraulic and water quality monitoring. Control of the hydraulic devices.

Distribution networks management – Tasks of distribution networks. Objectives and constraints in managing distribution networks. Water demand management and remote reading of customers meters (smart meters). Integrated approaches to the pre-localization of water losses.

 

 

Teaching methods

10 lessons of 2 hours each

4/5 seminars of 2 hours each - possible contacts for “Design thinking lab”:

•Municipality of Bologna •LabsMove – Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi  •Emilia Romagna Region •TPER  •Area Blu – Imola •HERA-TECH •IREN-IRETI •ROMAGNA ACQUE

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Simone

See the website of Cristiana Bragalli