Transport Systems

Code:

EC0087

Acronym:

STRA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Territory Planning and Environment

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Spatial Planning and Environment Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEC	11	Syllabus since 2006/2007	5	-	5	52,5	133

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Transportation is and area of knowledge with proper specificities and the decisions have implications in other areas of the engineering like land use, energy consumption, deesign of infrastructures, etc. Investment decisions and transport economy also have specificities.

Increase the general knowledge of the students in the field of transportation. The subjects covered are related to air transport, maritime, rail and road at diferent scales, from urban to international.

Learning outcomes and competences

Knowledge: the information will be transmited with reference to 3 sides: historical because things have changed in the recent past, tecnological solutions and ojjectives and the formas of organization of the transport sector.

Understanding: 

Aplication: 

Analysis

Sinthesis

Evaluation:

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Historical evolution, in terms of technology and organization, of the different transport modes (air, maritime, road and rail). Current technological solutions and organization of markets for different modes of transport. Regulatory and funding models. General concepts of transport economics and evaluation of major transportation projects. In practical terms issues related to urban traffic will be analyzed such as road congestion, urban tolls, public transports, at the airspace level issues such as the role of airports, management and development forms, the air transport market, airlines (low cost and legacy), at the sea level issues related to the organization of the ports and the sea motorways and at the rail level regulatory and technological issues.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE SYLLABUS COHERENCE WITH THE CURRICULAR UNIT'S OBJECTIVES: Transport is an area of knowledge with specific characteristics and decisions at this level affect other areas of engineering such as the forms of land occupation, the energy solutions, design infrastructure, etc. Decisions on investment and economic practices also have their own fields of expertise.

Mandatory literature

David Banister; Transport planning. ISBN: 0-415-26171-6
Kenneth J. Button; Transport economics. ISBN: 1-85278-523-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures with presentation of the subjects. Theoretical-practical classes for discussion on specific topics related to theoretical subjects. Tutorials for monitoring of student work. Work themes for each student are different and complementary. In the discussion and final presentation all students are involved.

Field visits to different modes of transport: visit the Museum of Electric Car, Porto Airport, Central Command of STCP and Porto City Hall, Port of Leixões. In these study visits, students have the opportunity to contact professionals and discuss issues previously learned in classes.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE COHERENCE BETWEEN THE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND THE LEARNING OUTCOMES: The student should be able to formalize a process of investment decision on a transportation project. The student should be able to understand the scope of the review process in this field of knowledge. The student should be able to formulate a problem of transport. The student should be able to generate concrete ideas, evaluate the outcome of decisions and propose solutions for issues of mobility of people and movement of goods.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Report	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	2,00	60,00
Examination	Exame	2,00	40,00
	Total:	-	100,00

Eligibility for exams

“Achieving final classification requires compliance with attendance at the course unit. It is considered that students meet the attendance requirements if, having been regularly enrolled, the number of absences of 25% for each of the classes’ types is not exceeded. The following cases are exempted from the attendance requirements: i) cases prescribed by law, including student workers; ii) students who were admitted to exams in the previous academic year.”

Calculation formula of final grade

Examination 40%. Works 60%.

Observations

........................................................... Estimated working time out of classes: 4 hours