Educational objectives The goal of the course is to supply the fundamentals about the geomatics technologies related to positioning and navigation (Global Navigation Satellite Systems – GNSS) and to archiving and management of geospatial data (Geographical Information Systems – GIS).
The presentation of the mentioned items will be completed with practical exercises.
To this aim, part of the teaching will focus on the fundamentals of Geodesy and Mapping.
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Educational objectives The aim of the course is to enable students to learn the basics of programming aimed at processing and analyzing data for applications related to the field of transport engineering. The programming course will be oriented to learn and apply the Matlab language. Basic elements for programming in the Python language will also be provided. After acquiring the basic elements related to the formalization of engineering problems aimed at their resolution through calculation procedures, the course will be developed by addressing a series of application examples characterized by a gradually increasing complexity in the field of transport engineering.
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Educational objectives • Main goals
The goal is to develop a critical understanding of air transport performance, and namely to
To analyze the main aerodynamics principles and concepts to enable students to develop the knowledge of flight principles, as well as aircraft design and configurations
To illustrate different approaches and models for the analysis and evaluation of air transport systems, to allow students to understand the development and the contemporary trends in air transport operations
To develop a deeper understanding of the links between the components of the air transport system (aircraft, airside and landside facilities, demand, navigation and control systems, air safety)
• Specific goal
To create skills in developing an upgrading plan for a minor airport in italy, as an opportunity for the students to apply the theoretical knowledge achieved in class and prepare a technical and scientific document to communicate the plan content.
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Educational objectives • The course aim is to provide with basic elements of knowledge concerning the maritime transport system and the educational elements to study the railway complex system operation.
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Educational objectives Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide to the student operating capability to:
• Deal with collection, aggregation and analysis of road accident data.
• Thoroughly analyze road accidents and select the most effective countermeasures.
• Define Road Safety management processes.
• Plan the road safety strategies for the short, medium and long term.
• Perform the basic aspects of road safety audits and inspections.
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Educational objectives • to achieve a specific training of the basic Knowledge of transport infrastructures Engineering
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Educational objectives •To analyse business logistics in order to understand the determinants of goods mobility. To provide theoretical tools to tackle logistics systems design problems of interest to goods distribution and provision of public services.
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Educational objectives General aims
The aim is to allow students to learn: the basics of port planning; the basics of maritime works and their design; the technical and functional characteristics of the main maritime terminals. The port is considered as a node of the intermodal transport network.
The fundamentals of dynamic oceanography and maritime hydraulics are provided during the course.
Specific aims
General knowledge
At the end of the course the students will know: i) the basic criteria for the port location, dimensioning and land connections; (ii) the contents and the development phases of a port master plan; (iii) the development and comparison of possible alternative solutions for the port lay-out; (iv) the functional and dimensioning criteria of the port water areas with respect to the local meteo-oceanographic characteristics and of the of vessels maneuverability characteristics; (v) the functional and design criteria of the main maritime works (rubble mound breakwaters, vertical and composite breakwaters, quays and jetties); (vi) the functional and design criteria of the main maritime terminals; (vii) specialized studies to be carried out in order to support a port master plan (transport and economic studies, marine-hydraulic study, wave penetration study, ship maneuverability study, port resonance study, port entrance and docks workability, environmental studies, etc.) (viii) the main problems related to the interaction between ports and environment with particular attention to the hydraulic aspects.
Ability to be part of a working group
At the end of the course the students will be able to become part of a working group that deals with port engineering. They will be able to work under the guidance of expert coastal engineers, being able also to collaborate constructively with experts from other disciplines that contribute to the development of a complex port master plan or to the design of maritime works (hydraulic engineers, transport engineers, structural engineers, geologists, economists, biologists, etc.).
Ability to develop calculation programs
Students will be taught to develop calculation programs for data analysis in the MATLAB environment. The basics of MATLAB programming will be given during the course. The calculation programs that will be developed will be functional to the development of the exercises.
Critical development of exercises
Students will have to develop some exercises during the course. The exercises cover single design themes. The day of the exam, students must bring a written technical report describing the exercises dealt with during the course. The report must be written by using a technical approach and must contain: the text of the exercise, the description of the method followed to solve the posed problem, the results obtained expressed both in numerical and graphical form, the critical analysis of the obtained results in relation to the project objectives.
Communication skills
Students' communication skills will be stimulated during the exercises course. Students will be invited to intervene to explain the adopted method to solve the problems, the obtained results and any doubts.
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Educational objectives To provide with elements of knowledge concerning the public
transport systems and the educational elements to study
operation and management of the systems themselves, as well as
the design criteria of vehicles and services.
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Educational objectives TRANSPORT SYSTEM DESIGN
The Transportation Systems Design course aims to provide students with the essential tools for the simulation and functional design of transportation systems, modeling transportation supply and demand and their interactions. Acquisition of specific knowledge to face the typical problems of transport engineering with a systemic approach, particularly in assessing the effects of the designed solutions.
The lectures focus on the development trend of traffic planning and theory, explain the content and primary process of urban traffic planning, analyze the classical methods of demand forecasting, and introduce the measures of urban traffic congestion and traffic development situation analysis.
The course aims to provide the principles of transport planning concerning different geographic and temporal scales and the functional design of transport infrastructures and services.
The course will provide an introduction to macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow simulation.
It will offer basic knowledge about software tools for traffic and system simulation. The general approaches and methodologies of traffic flow simulation will be explained.
During the course, the students will learn how:
1) implement transport demand models, transport supply, and their interaction.
2) build the OD Matrix, the road graph
3) perform the traffic assignment
4) assess the performances and levels of service offered by the transport system
5) identify possible design solutions to solve the emerging problems
6) build and assess alternative scenarios through simulation.
The course will be taught as a Lab where the students will learn by doing.
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