Management of Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical lessons with detailed exposition of the concepts, basic principles and theories and also with the presentation of pratical case studies. The students, with the supervision and guidance of the professor, solve practical cases based in real situations related with transport infrastructures.

Learning Outcomes

The overall objective is to provide students with sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the maintenance and rehabilitation of transport infrastructures, particularly with regard to road infastructures, airport infrastructures and urban railway infrastructures. At the end of the course students should be able to understand a reinforcement project of a degradated road pavement, understand a rehabilitation project of an airport pavement, understand a rehabilitation project of an urban railway, to be able to participate in multidisciplinary teams to define solutions in terms of transport infrastructures.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Introduction to Transport Infrastructures Design;

• Principles, Methodologies and Techniques for Assessing the Quality of Roads, Urban Railways and Aerodromes or Heliports;

• Maintenance and Rehabilitation Management of Roads, Urban Railways and Aerodromes or Heliports;

• Management Systems for Roads, Urban Railways and Aerodromes or Heliports;

• Challenges posed to Transport Infrastructures by the Operationalization of Autonomous, Connected and Electric Mobility.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 50.0%
Frequency: 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.