Road and Airport Infrastructure Engineering

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures combining theoretical explanations with exercise solving and with conceptual and real-case discussions.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with a deep knowledge and with advanced R&D skills and competences on the subject of road and airport infrastructure engineering.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Surface transport infrastructure engineering, scope and specificities. The road and its components. The aircraft-related land side of airports and aerodromes.

Design of road pavements. Pavement design in special road sections. Design of airport pavements. Sizing methods.

Design of road bridges and tunnels. Facilities. Operation.

Construction of road and airport pavements. Technological specificities of applicable materials.

Road management and operation. Applicable methodologies as a function of maintenance level of administration. Road and pavement condition assessment. Formulation of road/pavement maintenance and rehabilitation strategies.

Head Lecturer(s)

Adelino Jorge Lopes Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Home assignments and written final exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide – A Manual of Practice, 2008.

Branco F, Pereira P, Picado-Santos L, Pavimentos Rodoviários, Edições Almedina, 2006

de Neufville R, Odoni A, Airport Systems Planning, Design, and Management, McGraw-Hill, 2003

Fwa TF, The Handbook of Highway Engineering, Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Kraemer C, Pardillo C, Maria J, Ingenieria de carreteras II, MacGraw-Hill, 2004