Students encounter the concepts of transport supply and demand and learn to estimate demand and simulate supply. They become familiar for the first time with some concepts that will be essential in their professional life such as the cost-benefit analysis and other more specific concepts of the sector such as, the interaction between transport supply and demand and the impacts caused by mobility.
The course will contribute to the following learning objectives specific of the Master Programme:
Knowledge and understanding
cc1 The multidisciplinary normative, methodological, technological, and instrumental knowledge of the context related to the ecological transition of systems, services and products.
cc2 The systemic knowledge of methodologies, technologies, and key aspects of the life cycle assessment of a product, process or service.
cc8 Knowledge of the mobility system, its constitutive elements and the tools for its characterisation and description.
cc9 Knowledge of vehicles and their technical and design characteristics for the development of sustainable mobility.
cc10 Knowledge of methods for planning and carrying out highly complex experimental activities for the analysis of components and systems
cc12 Knowledge of elements of business management and the related decision-making and organisational processes, also with reference to innovation management.
cc13 Knowledge of the methods and tools for cooperative work.
Applying knowledge and understanding
ca1 The ability to identify, formulate and solve industrial engineering problems, defining specifications, technical, social, environmental, and commercial constraints.
ca2 The ability to carry out engineering projects, working in a multidisciplinary environment.
ca4 The in-depth ability to conduct complex experiments and to handle advanced instrumentation and software.
ca5 The ability to combine theory and practice to identify and solve multidisciplinary engineering problems, considering constraints, including non-technical ones.
ca6 The ability to manage complex, multidisciplinary projects and organisations to make their development sustainable.
Making judgements
ag1 The ability to independently analyse data and information, draw objective conclusions and make consequential decisions.
ag3 The ability to identify the need for new knowledge.
Communication skills
ac1 The ability to communicate and transfer information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non-specialists.
ac2 The ability to professionally present problems, solutions, analyses and results through written reports and verbal presentations.
Learning skills
ap2 The capacity for continuous and autonomous learning, and self-updating in the relevant engineering area
Prerequisiti
None
Metodi Didattici
“Frontal” lectures in the classroom and students’ workout are the teaching methods. Students, having learned the basics, work on their own project to dimension and evaluate a sustainable innovative transport system. The project (carried out during classes) is presented and discussed at the exam.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
For students who have carried out the project in class and drafted a technical report, the oral exam begins with the presentation of the technical report and some in-depth questions on the same and is completed with a further question on other topics covered in the course but not in the technical report.
To pass the exam, the student shall demonstrate: 1) knowledge of the technical content (cc1, cc2, cc8, cc9, cc10, cc12); 2) capacity to independently develop an interdisciplinary project and to independently integrate missing knowledge (cc13, ca1, ca2, ca4, ca5, ca6, ag1, ag3, ap2); 3) capability to professionally present the project development and results (ac1, ac2)
Programma del corso
Transport impacts and externalities
How lowering transport impacts
The Transport policies in Europe
Evaluating transport choices
Vehicles and their motion
Road vehicles
- performances,
- energy consumption,
- noxious emissions
Rail rolling stock
- performances,
- energy consumption,
- noxious emissions
Transport systems
gap
flow
traffic
infrastructure capacity
Rail transport
signaling
timetable
capacity
Transport planning
Planning for the different time horizons and norms
Zoning and Origin-Destination matrix building
The road network graph and transport supply
The four steps model
Demand generation and attraction models
Distribution models (Gravity models)
Modal choice models
Traffic assignment models.
Freight transport and its differences from passengers.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
11. sustainable cities and communities
12. Responsible consumption and production
13. Climate action