Road and Airport Infrastructure Engineering
1
2024-2025
03002278
City Planning and Transportation
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
3rd Cycle Studies
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)
NoSyllabus
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.
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