Rail, Air and Sea Transport is a course of the Transport sector of the Master's Degree in Road Infrastructures and Transport. The main objective of this degree is to train a highly qualified civil engineer able to operate in the sectors of road infrastructures and transport systems.
Rail, Air and Sea Transport aims to provide students with the most advanced knowledge with regard to the components and management of railway, air and naval systems. The course will provide students with the most advanced knowledge with regard to flow-speed models, to capacity computation for stations and air and sea terminals, as well as for their access infrastructures as railway lines, waterways and runway.
Students will acquire highly professional and specialized skills on problems related to the design of rail, air and sea transport systems such as: 1) flow-speed models, 2) timetable of railway lines, 3) computation of capacity of a railway, 4) optimize primary and secondary yard areas in layouts port terminals, 5) optimize models of line services for sea transport, 6) identify models of air traffic management, 7) evaluate the break-even point and load factor for aircraft.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to 1) analyse and design the functional characteristics of rail, air and sea transport systems, 2) identify the structural models and the technical and economic aspects of each transport system, 3) plan a transport system in terms of nodes, infrastructures and vehicles 2) propose strategy to solve problems related to the under production and management of the systems, as well as the possible operations.
Rail, Air and Sea Transport aims to provide students with the most advanced knowledge with regard to the components and management of railway, air and naval systems. The course will provide students with the most advanced knowledge with regard to flow-speed models, to capacity computation for stations and air and sea terminals, as well as for their access infrastructures as railway lines, waterways and runway.
Students will acquire highly professional and specialized skills on problems related to the design of rail, air and sea transport systems such as: 1) flow-speed models, 2) timetable of railway lines, 3) computation of capacity of a railway, 4) optimize primary and secondary yard areas in layouts port terminals, 5) optimize models of line services for sea transport, 6) identify models of air traffic management, 7) evaluate the break-even point and load factor for aircraft.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to 1) analyse and design the functional characteristics of rail, air and sea transport systems, 2) identify the structural models and the technical and economic aspects of each transport system, 3) plan a transport system in terms of nodes, infrastructures and vehicles 2) propose strategy to solve problems related to the under production and management of the systems, as well as the possible operations.