Planning collective equipments

Year
1

Academic year
2011-2012

Code
03005336

Subject Area
City Planning, Means of Transportation and Communication

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Elective

Level
3rd Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

None.

Teaching Methods

(1) Teaching methods: lectures combining theoretical explanations with conceptual and real-case discussions; and talks by leading experts in the field.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with advanced knowledge about public facility planning concepts, methodologies, and techniques, upon which to base high-level R&D activities.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

(1) Ingredients of public facility planning. Demand vs. supply of public facilities. Operational planning vs. strategic planning. Role of the public sector.
(2) Operational public facility planning. Objectives. Decisions. Constraints. Approaches. Demand estimation. Determination of supply. Decision support techniques. Cost-benefit analysis. Multicriteria analysis. Optimization techniques. Basic models (UFLP, CFLP, p-median, MCP) – formulation and resolution. Advanced models (hierarchic, dynamic, stochastic).
(3) Strategic public facility planning. Influence of public facilities on household and firm locational decisions. Decision support techniques.

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Final written exam: 50.0%
Practical work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Antunes, A.P. (2006), Lições de Planeamento de Equipamentos Colectivos, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal) – inclui em anexo uma coleção de artigos de referência sobre o assunto / includes in annex a collection of reference articles on the subject.

Daskin, M.S. (1995), Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Wiley, New York (USA).

Larson, R.C., Odoni, A.R., Urban Operations Research, Dynamic Ideas, Belmont (MA, USA).