Transport Infrastructures

Recommended Prerequisites

Transports; Highways; Geotechnics.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical lessons with detailed exposition of the concepts, basic principles and theories and also with the resolution of practical exercises. The students, with the supervision and guidance of the professor, solve practical exercises based in real problems. Some of the practical classes will take place at the Road Pavements Laboratory.

Learning Outcomes

The overall objective is to provide students with sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the design, construction and operation of transport infrastructure networks, particularly with regard to municipal road networks and to the national road network.

At the end of the course students should be able to: formulate a bituminous mixture for a road pavement; design the structure of a road pavement; design a surface drainage system for a road; design an underground drainage system for a road; define conservation or rehabilitation interventions for road network pavements; define interventions in accident accumulation sections.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Introduction to transport infrastructures;

• Road pavements: structures and materials;

• Geotechnics applied in earthworks of transport infrastructures;

• Pavement design;

• Pavement technology;

• Drainage of transport infrastructures;

• Pavement maintenance management and safety in transport infrastructures. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Adelino Jorge Lopes Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Frequency: 100.0%

Final assessment
Course assessment can also be made by exam as an alternative to the midterm exams assessment: 100.0%

Bibliography

Branco, F., Pereira, P., Picado-Santos, L. (2016), Pavimentos Rodoviários, Livraria Almedina, Coimbra.

Branco, F., Picado-Santos, L., Capitão, S. (2001), Vias de Comunicação: Volume 2, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade de Coimbra (Geotecnia Rodoviária - capítulo 18; Drenagem - capítulo 20).

Ferreira, A., Almeida, A. (2019), Infraestruturas Viárias: Questões Práticas, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade de Coimbra.

Ferreira, A. (2010), Gestão Rodoviária: os Desenvolvimentos Necessários nos Próximos Anos, Estradas, Brasil, 15, 16-23.

Ferreira (2015), Importância da Implementação de Sistemas de Gestão da Sinistralidade Rodoviária, Revista Portuguesa de Sinalização, AFESP, 6, 71-78.

JAE (1995), Manual de Conceção de Pavimentos para a Rede Rodoviária Nacional, Junta Autónoma de Estradas.

Mallick, R., El-Korchi, T. (2017), Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, New York, USA.