TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS

Course objectives

The course aims at providing students with the founding elements of knowledge concerning transport systems and its components (infrastructures, vehicles and services) in combination and integration with the educational approaches to study their operational mechanisms. The ambition is to associate, integrate and apply technical, economical and environmental principles and methods to the solution of transport engineering problems in the field of planning, design and operation.

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Introduction and educational goals. Glossary, key parameters and measurements units. Classification, numerical consistence and utilisation of infrastructures, vehicles and services. Equilibrium and locomotion. Motion elementary diagram and isolated vehicle performances. Flow theory in linear and punctual plants. Basic theory of demand and offer. Schematisation of transport offer. Principle scheme for the study of transport demand. Generalised transport cost. Costs for transport services production and use of infrastructures. Externalities concepts: safety and environmental impact. Phases and scripts in transport systems planning and design.
Prerequisites
Principles and mthods of physics and mathematics
Books
Ricci S. - Tecnica ed Economia dei Trasporti - Hoepli, Milano, 2011
Frequency
Active presence in classroom and participation to seminars
Exam mode
Interview and discussion on topics from the syllabus
Lesson mode
Frontal lectures and practices
  • Lesson code101168
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseEnvironmental Engineering
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year3rd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDICAR/05
  • CFU6