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Complements of Roads, Railways and Airports Construction
31458

Description
Objectives
The course is devoted to the deepened analysis of issues related to the design of a transport infrastructure, with reference to the road intersections and road pavements. The courses is intended to provide the methodological basis in order to evaluate the main elements of a road intersections with regards to the functional, geometrical, economical and safety aspects and to assess pavement behaviour. 

Course program 
  • Concepts on technical and economic aspects of the design roads to traffic and design; 
  • Design criteria for road intersections; 
  • Concepts of Probability and Statistics; 
  • Uninterrupted and interrupted traffic flow theory;
  • Gap acceptance and queueing theory for the evaluation of level-of-service (LOS);
  • LOS evaluation of Unsignalized intersections;
  • LOS evaluation of Signalized intersections; 
  • LOS evaluation of ramps and weaving areas; 
  • Concepts of road and pavement construction; 
  • Introduction to the empirical and mechanistic approach to the pavement design. 

Crédits ECTS
9

Langue d'enseignement
English/italiano

Langue d'examen
English/italiano

Langue des supports pédagogiques
italiano/English

Acquis d'apprentissage fondamentaux

Entité de gestion (faculté)
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (UNICAS)