Educational objectives •To analyse business logistics in order to understand the determinants of goods mobility. To provide theoretical tools to tackle logistics systems design problems of interest to goods distribution and provision of public services.
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Educational objectives General aims
The aim is to allow students to learn: the basics of port planning; the basics of maritime works and their design; the technical and functional characteristics of the main maritime terminals. The port is considered as a node of the intermodal transport network.
The fundamentals of dynamic oceanography and maritime hydraulics are provided during the course.
Specific aims
General knowledge
At the end of the course the students will know: i) the basic criteria for the port location, dimensioning and land connections; (ii) the contents and the development phases of a port master plan; (iii) the development and comparison of possible alternative solutions for the port lay-out; (iv) the functional and dimensioning criteria of the port water areas with respect to the local meteo-oceanographic characteristics and of the of vessels maneuverability characteristics; (v) the functional and design criteria of the main maritime works (rubble mound breakwaters, vertical and composite breakwaters, quays and jetties); (vi) the functional and design criteria of the main maritime terminals; (vii) specialized studies to be carried out in order to support a port master plan (transport and economic studies, marine-hydraulic study, wave penetration study, ship maneuverability study, port resonance study, port entrance and docks workability, environmental studies, etc.) (viii) the main problems related to the interaction between ports and environment with particular attention to the hydraulic aspects.
Ability to be part of a working group
At the end of the course the students will be able to become part of a working group that deals with port engineering. They will be able to work under the guidance of expert coastal engineers, being able also to collaborate constructively with experts from other disciplines that contribute to the development of a complex port master plan or to the design of maritime works (hydraulic engineers, transport engineers, structural engineers, geologists, economists, biologists, etc.).
Ability to develop calculation programs
Students will be taught to develop calculation programs for data analysis in the MATLAB environment. The basics of MATLAB programming will be given during the course. The calculation programs that will be developed will be functional to the development of the exercises.
Critical development of exercises
Students will have to develop some exercises during the course. The exercises cover single design themes. The day of the exam, students must bring a written technical report describing the exercises dealt with during the course. The report must be written by using a technical approach and must contain: the text of the exercise, the description of the method followed to solve the posed problem, the results obtained expressed both in numerical and graphical form, the critical analysis of the obtained results in relation to the project objectives.
Communication skills
Students' communication skills will be stimulated during the exercises course. Students will be invited to intervene to explain the adopted method to solve the problems, the obtained results and any doubts.
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Educational objectives To provide with elements of knowledge concerning the public
transport systems and the educational elements to study
operation and management of the systems themselves, as well as
the design criteria of vehicles and services.
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Educational objectives TRANSPORT SYSTEM DESIGN
The Transportation Systems Design course aims to provide students with the essential tools for the simulation and functional design of transportation systems, modeling transportation supply and demand and their interactions. Acquisition of specific knowledge to face the typical problems of transport engineering with a systemic approach, particularly in assessing the effects of the designed solutions.
The lectures focus on the development trend of traffic planning and theory, explain the content and primary process of urban traffic planning, analyze the classical methods of demand forecasting, and introduce the measures of urban traffic congestion and traffic development situation analysis.
The course aims to provide the principles of transport planning concerning different geographic and temporal scales and the functional design of transport infrastructures and services.
The course will provide an introduction to macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow simulation.
It will offer basic knowledge about software tools for traffic and system simulation. The general approaches and methodologies of traffic flow simulation will be explained.
During the course, the students will learn how:
1) implement transport demand models, transport supply, and their interaction.
2) build the OD Matrix, the road graph
3) perform the traffic assignment
4) assess the performances and levels of service offered by the transport system
5) identify possible design solutions to solve the emerging problems
6) build and assess alternative scenarios through simulation.
The course will be taught as a Lab where the students will learn by doing.
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