Transport Infrastructures Project
2
2021-2022
02041505
Civil Engineering
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Transports; Highways; Geotechnics; Transport Infrastructures.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical lessons with detailed exposition of the concepts, basic principles and theories and also with the resolution of practical exercises. Practical lessons where the students, with the supervision and guidance of the professor, solve practical exercises based in real problems and a project of a transport infrastructure.
Learning Outcomes
The overall objective is to provide students with sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the conception and design of transport infrastructures, particularly with regard to road infastructures, airport infrastructures and railway infrastructures. At the end of the course students should be able to: design the pavement of a new road; design the reinforcement of a degradated road pavement; design the pavement of an airport or aerodrome; design a railway.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
• Project development phases;
• Parts of a project;
• Design of new road pavements;
• Design of reinforcement of degraded road pavements;
• Maintenance and rehabilitation of road pavements;
• Pavement Management Systems and Road Safety Management Systems;
• Design and management of airport infrastructures;
• Design and management of railway infrastructures.
Head Lecturer(s)
Adelino Jorge Lopes Ferreira
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%
Bibliography
AASHTO (1993). Guide for design of pavement structures. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C., USA, 4th ed., 1-640.
AASTHO (2008). Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Interium Edition: A Manual of Practice, Washington, DC, 1-204.
Branco, F., Pereira, P., Picado-Santos, L. (2016), Pavimentos Rodoviários, Livraria Almedina, Coimbra.
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.
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.