Transport Infrastructures Project

Recommended Prerequisites

Roads: Materials and Construction, Road design.

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)

No

Syllabus

• 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
Project: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

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, A. (2020). Engenharia de Infraestruturas de Transporte –Exercícios teórico-práticos, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra.
JAE (1995), Manual de Conceção de Pavimentos para a Rede Rodoviária Nacional, Junta Autónoma de Estradas.
Mallick, R., El-Korchi, T. (2022), Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition, CRC Press, New York, USA.
FAA (2024). Airport Design and Engineering Standards, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D.C., USA.
Pyrgidis, C. (2021). Railway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.