Transport Infrastructures Maintenance and Rehabilitation Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Foundations, Highways I, Highways II.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical lessons with detailed exposition of the concepts, basic principles and theories and also with the resolution of practical exercises. Field lessons where the students, by supervision and guidance of the professors, solve problems based in real situations.

Learning Outcomes

Supply the main concepts, principles and theories to the students that allow them intervening in the conception and exploration of transport infrastructure networks, nominated in what it respects to municipal road networks, to municipal airports, to bike and pedestrian networks,  to the railway network, etc. Acquisition of competences in the following areas: analysis and synthesis, organization and planning, resolution of problems, capacity of decision, work in group, work with interdisciplinary teams, critical reasoning, to understand the language of other specialists, to apply in practical the theoretical knowledge, concern with the quality, concern with supported development.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Road Infrastructures
oComponents;
oPathologies and quality indicators;
oInspection techniques;
oReinforcement design;
oTechniques of maintenance and rehabilitation;
oRoad Infrastructure Management Systems;
oManagement of work zones.

Municipal Airport Infrastructures
oComponents;
oPathologies and quality indicators;
oInspection techniques;
oTechniques of maintenance and rehabilitation;
oMunicipal Airport Infrastructure Management Systems.

Bike and Pedestrian Infrastructures
oComponents;
oPathologies and quality indicators;
oTechniques of maintenance and rehabilitation of degradated components;
oBike and pedestrian Infrastructure Management Systems.

Railway Infrastructures
oComponents;
oPathologies and quality indicators;
oInspection techniques;
oTechniques of maintenance and rehabilitation of degraded components;
oRailway Infrastructure Management Systems.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Branco, F., Pereira, P., Picado-Santos, L. (2005). Pavimentos Rodoviários, Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, Portugal.

CCDRN (2008). Manual de Planeamento de Acessibilidades e Transportes, Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte, Porto, Portugal.

Ferreira, A., Picado-Santos, L. (2007). A Gestão da Qualidade das Redes Rodoviárias: o Estado da Arte e os Desenvolvimentos Futuros, Ingenium, Especial Comunicações Técnicas, II Série, N.º 98, 64-76.

JAE (1995). Manual de Concepção de Pavimentos para a Rede Rodoviária Nacional. Junta Autónoma de Estradas, Lisboa. Inclui no final as tabelas do Asphalt Institute (MS-1).

Mallick, R., El-Korchi, T. (2013). Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, New York, USA.

Neufville, R. and Odoni, A. (2013). Airport Systems: Planning, Design, and Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA.

Profillidis, V. (2014). Railway Management and Engineering, 4th Edition, Ashgate Publishing, England.