Transportation systems engineering Basic concepts, current practice and some applications to railways planning
Event details
| Date | 04.11.2010 |
| Hour | 17:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Ennio Cascetta Professor of Transportation Systems Planning - Department of Transportation Engineering University of Napl |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
Transportation systems engineering can be defined as a discipline aimed at the functional design of physical and/or organizational components of transportation systems. A set of coordinated, internally consistent actions on a transportation system are referred to as a project or plan. Transportation system modelling allows the prediction of the relevant impacts of possible projects in order to design them, assess their technical suitability and to support intermediate and final decision-makers through the process of projects evaluation.
The range of transportation system projects is very diverse, and so are the points of view from which their consequences can be evaluated. Projects might involve transportation infrastructures, control systems, services, fares. Similarly, projects can be designed and evaluated from the perspective of the community they will serve, from the perspective of the service and/or facility operators, or from the perspective of potential investors (i.e. project financing). Decision-making for transportation systems is often more complex than for systems in other sectors of engineering. This is especially true when the decision-maker must consider, either directly or indirectly, the effects of proposed actions on the larger community .These effects include variations in travellers generalised costs, investment and operating costs for different companies; effects on land-use and activity location; effects on economic levels, variation on air pollution; number of accidents, energy consumption, etc. Over the last 50 years a wide body of models and computational tools have been developed and applied to solve countless problems ranging from large investments plans at national and international levels to traffic control schemes of urban intersections.
Two applications of these principles are discussed in some detail.
The first is related to the Campania Regional Metro System project, which is an example of integrated land-use, infrastructure and operational planning.
The second application of the principles of transportation systems engineering deals with the recent High Speed Rail investments in Italy.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Consuelo Antille