Transport Infrastructures Engineering and Management

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)

No

Syllabus

• 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.

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.