Università Roma Tre

Freight Transport and Logistics is a course related to the Transport Engineering sector, in the Master's Degree of 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.
The Freight Transport and Logistics course aims to provide students with the main knowledge of logistics and supply chain components, to the management of a warehouse with reference to incoming and outgoing flows, to the techniques for forecasting and managing freight demand, to the distribution of goods at different spatial level (urban, regional, national and international level).
Students will acquire highly professional and specialized skills on problems related to the planning of a supply chain such as 1) sizing and optimization of logistics nodes and infrastructures 2) methods and models for management of freight transport demand. Skills will also be acquired regarding the energy and environmental aspects of freight transport.
At the end of the course the students will be able to 1) size a logistic system in terms of nodes, infrastructures and networks, vectors and load units; 2) propose solutions for the transport of goods according to the distance, the quantities and the energy and environmental impacts; 3) solve problems of urban distribution of goods and evaluate possible interventions, also through the use of computer programming.