The PhD Course in Infrastructures and Transport aims to train a professional, multidisciplinary, highly qualified and integrated scientific figure. Its main topics include: the modelling and planning of sustainable mobility for people and goods, the construction and operation of infrastructures and transportation systems focusing on those with improved environmental friendly performances, the analysis and management of geographic and spatial information relative to land and human settlement.
The PhD Course consists of two curricula:
1. Curriculum INFRASTRUCTURES, TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND GEOMATICS
The curriculum "Infrastructures, transport systems and geomatics" will allow the acquirement, in-depth examination, development and implementation of actual and advanced technical methodologies for civil engineering works design and construction.
The main interest will be pointed on the realization and management of large linear infrastructures, integrated in transportation networks (roads, railways, harbours, airports), taking into consideration the preservation of a good human equilibrium and the safeguard of territory and environment, considering economic and financial conditions.
2. Curriculum TRANSPORT AND LAND-USE PLANNING
Transportation of people and goods has always been a key factor for the progress of culture and welfare in complex societies. In particular, during the last decades the transport sector assumed a crucial role for the growth of our modern and globalized economies.
The curriculum in “Transport and land-use planning” is meant to address these issues, by providing to young researchers a great variety of technical instruments in a multidisciplinary scientific environment; this way allowing them to give original answers to such relevant questions through a systemic approach. PhD students will then be able to:
- design transport systems, by setting their functional characteristics and performances
- evaluate the effects and the impacts of transport system modifications from different perspectives, to support final decisions through proper technical, social, economical and environmental analyses
- understand the totality of interactions between transportation networks and territory in order to guarantee the safeguarding of the environment, protection of the landscape, and improvement of settlement organization, and at the same time seizing the opportunities for economic and social development that can support the feasibility and sustainability of works
- delineate transport planning processes in which instruments for analysing, simulating, and evaluating networks and their effects on the territory are organically linked to the listening, participation and deliberation activities provided by European regulations and the most advanced planning methodologies. |