- Docente: Luca Mantecchini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Civil Engineering (cod. 0452)
Learning outcomes
This course gives quantitative instruments to plan, project and design the main components of transportation networks. After a short overview of the main theoretical aspects of transportation networks, transportation demand and assignment, in the course are handled many transportation issues and topics with a practical approach, in order to understand the main technical, functional and financial problems of transportation systems. Transportation sustainability, performance measurement, freight transportation and air transportation are the main topics of the course, and the lessons will be enhanced by seminars and technical visits to transportation terminals.
Course contents
I - Quantitative methods and models for transportation network planning
Transportation network characteristics
Transportation supply models
Land use and transportation models
Transportation demand analysis and estimation
Models of interaction between transportation supply and demand
II – Transportation performance models
Performance evaluation systems and methods
Environmental performances: application to transportation system
Environmental pollution
Transportation sustainability
III – Financial evaluation of transportation plans and projects
Benefits of a transportation project
Benefit-cost analysis and multi-criteria analysis
IV – Logistics and freight transportation
Characteristics and structure of a freight transport system
Freight transportation network: elements, transport modes and terminals
Rail freight transportation
Freight demand models
Planning of freight transport systems and infrastructures
V – Air transportation
Characteristics if air transport system: network and service models
Main current issues of air transportation
Performance evaluation of air transport system
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching methods
Lessons, exercises, seminars and technical visits
Assessment methods
Written exam
Teaching tools
Office hours
See the website of Luca Mantecchini