The course of road materials will provide students with fundamental issues and knowledge of road construction materials such as soils, aggregates and binders both in terms of physical and mechanical characterization and acceptance requirements in road infrastructure design and materials selection. Some lectures will be developed in laboratory and others are dedicated to exercises.
The program of the course is structured in three overall section according to the following scheduling:
Soil (from lecture 1 to lecture 19)
- soil properties: soil formation, solid, liquid, and gas phases of soil, water in soils, index properties (water content, void ratio, density, porosity), permeability, real and apparent cohesion, grain size analysis, atterberg limits (plasticity index, liquid and plastic limit), aashto soil classification system, other soil classification;
- soil mechanics: stresses in soils, compressibility, plasticity, consolidation, soil compaction, degree of compaction, stabilization, bearing capacity;
- soil applications: preloading, vertical drains, grouting, construction of embankments on soft clay or silt, acceptance requirements, technical provisions for use of soils;
- other road construction materials: geosynthetics, sources and types of waste materials, waste materials in geotechnical engineering applications, c&d materials, expanded clay, expanded poly styrene; fly ashes, furnace slags, waste tyres;
- laboratory and in situ tests (with international regulations): granulometric analysis, moisture content of soil, atterberg limits, standard and modified proctor, california bearing ratio, benkleman beam, plate load tests, (light) falling weight deflectomer, in-situ density and moisture content, bulk and true density.

Aggregates (from lecture 20 to lecture 23)
- definitions and general properties of aggregates; procedure and terminology for simplified petrographic description;
- geometrical properties: determination of particle size distribution, particle shape (flakiness index, shape index), assessment of surface characteristics, assessment of fines (sand equivalent test, methylene blue test);
- mechanical and physical properties: methods for the determination of resistance to fragmentation (la abrasion, impact test), resistance to wear (micro-deval), particle density and water absorption, particle density of filler, voids of dry compacted filler, polished stone value, compressive strength;
- thermal and chemical properties: determination of resistance to freezing and thawing, chemical analysis;
- tests for property characterization;
- acceptance requirements

Binders (from lecture 24 to lecture 27)
- bitumen
- definition and sampling of bituminous binders (solid, liquid and bitumen emulsion), foamed bitumen;
- properties and test: bitumen stiffness, visco-elastic behavior of asphaltic bitumen, stiffness or rheological property at elevated service temperature, stiffness and/or fracture at low service temperature, ageing for durability assessment, stiffness at intermediate service temperature, van der poel's homographs, heukelom's diagrams, determination of the penetration index of bitumen, determination of needle penetration, determination of softening point (ring and ball method), determination of the fraass breaking point, determination of the resistance to hardening under the influence of heat and air - rtfot method, viscosity, ductility;
- acceptance requirements;
- hydraulic binders
- main properties and tests, acceptance requirements.

Teacher's lectures and digital materials (i.e. video of lectures). Each lecture is recorded by the professor who then upload the video and other materials useful for the students in Moodle platform.

Other reference materials:
Norme CNR – UNI
Ferrari, Giannini: Ingegneria Stradale. Vol II “Corpo stradale e pavimentazioni”
Tesoriere: Strade, Ferrovie ed Aeroporti. Vol II

Accident analysis. Standards-based methods or performance-based methods for the road safety control. The functionality of the road network. The territorial and the traffic data banks. The accident data banks. Homogenous road segments. Risk assessment and accident analysis.
Standard design. Road geometry parameters and operating conditions. The surface road pavement conditions. Users’ behaviour: psychophysiological limits, objective and subjective safety degrees for the optimization of technical choices. Road users' risky behaviour.
Predictive accident models. European and national legislative procedures. Methods and techniques based on the analysis of geometric and kinematic standards. The “Road Safety Manual”. The “Highway Safety Manual”. Techniques based on neural networks. Techniques based on risk analysis.

Documents provided by the teacher.
A. Benedetto. Strade Ferrovie Aeroporti. Utet Università
Road Safety Manual. AIPCR
Highway Safety Manual. AASHTO

Transport System Definition. Modelling approach to transport systems. Supply system. Supply system modelling.
Travel Demand. Behavioural models based on random utility theory: Multinomial Logit, Nested Logit, Cross-Nested Logit, Probit.
Systematic utility formulation. Additive property. Logsum property. Calibration of behavioural models (Biogeme software). Aggregation.
Four steps models: emission, distribution, modal shift, route choice.
Assignment models. Travel demand estimation based on traffic counts. Within-day dynamic models.

“Transportation Systems Analysis. Models and Applications” (E. Cascetta, Springer, 2009)

1-Introduction to programming in Matlab
2-Ordinary differential equations
3-Partial differential equations
4-Descriptive statistics
5-Inferential statistics

-Lecture notes
-Chapra S., 2018. Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 4th Edition, McGrawHill Education.
-Chapra S., Canale R., 2015. Numerical Methods for Engineers 7th Edition, McGrawHill Education.
-Ross S. M., 2015. Probabilità e statistica per l'Ingegneria e le scienze, Apogeo Education.
-Navidi W., 2006. Probabilità e statistica per l'Ingegneria e le scienze, Apogeo McGraw-Hill.

Legislative and organizational requirements for road construction management. Road construction management: Gantt, Critical Path Method, Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Personnel, materials and equipments required for the road construction. Road construction work zones and effects on traffic flow. Methods of tunnel construction. Management of safety in road construction: legislation, safety plans. Environmental effects of the road construction. Barrier: legislation, types, parameters of performance.

Documentation will be provided by the lecturer. It will be made available on the Moodle 3 platform before lectures.
G. Dondi, C. Lantieri, A. Simone, V. Vignali ‘Costruzioni stradali: aspetti progettuali e costruttivi. Hoepli, 2014
F. Annunziata, M. Coni, F. Maltinti, F.Pinna, S. Portas. Progettazione stradale integrata. Zannichelli, 2004
G. Tesoriere ‘Strade ferrovie e aeroporti’ voll. I e II. UTET Editore.

Introduction to the air transport system; Main characteristics and types of Vehicles - Aircraft; Airways and Terminals: Main characteristics; Types of interactions between airway and aircraft; Interactions between aircrafts; Organizational methods and economic aspects. Overview of maritime transport system (components, technical terminology and characterization of sea trips);Main characteristics and types of vehicles used for maritime transport (ships, hydrofoils, hovercraft and types of ships); Infrastructures for navigation (channels) and main characteristics of maritime navigation; Type and characteristics of maritime transport services (scheduled and non-scheduled services, point-to-point services or hub & spoke systems); Intermodal transport of goods by sea (multi-modal cycle and complex single-mode cycle); Main characteristics and types of terminals used for maritime transport (components of ports and different types of terminals); Description of the components and the operations of a container terminal; Description of the components and the operations of a Ro-Ro terminal; Approaches and models for the functional design (layout definition, size of storage areas and equipment for handling loads) of port terminals.

Lecture notes. Sistemi di trasporto: tecnica e economia - G. E. Cantarella (a cura di) - UTET

Air Transport
Introduction to the air transport system; Main characteristics and types of Vehicles - Aircraft; Airways and Terminals: Main characteristics; Types of interactions between airway and aircraft; Interactions between aircrafts; Organizational methods and economic aspects.
Maritime transport
Overview of maritime transport system (components, technical terminology and characterization of sea trips);Main characteristics and types of vehicles used for maritime transport (ships, hydrofoils, hovercraft and types of ships); Infrastructures for navigation (channels) and main characteristics of maritime navigation; Type and characteristics of maritime transport services (scheduled and non-scheduled services, point-to-point services or hub & spoke systems); Intermodal transport of goods by sea (multi-modal cycle and complex single-mode cycle); Main characteristics and types of terminals used for maritime transport (components of ports and different types of terminals); Description of the components and the operations of a container terminal; Description of the components and the operations of a Ro-Ro terminal; Approaches and models for the functional design (layout definition, size of storage areas and equipment for handling loads) of port terminals.

Lecture notes.
Sistemi di trasporto: tecnica e economia - G. E. Cantarella (a cura di) – UTET

Types of road pavements. Type of mixtures for road pavements. Mix design: Marshall method, volumetric design. Principles and methods for design of bituminous and concrete pavements: empirical methods, mechanistic design. Performance characteristics of road pavements: indicators and methods for collecting pavement condition data. Types of defects of road pavements: fatigue cracking; rutting, others defects. Catalogues of road pavements defects. Railway pavement structures.

Documentation will be provided by the lecturer. It will be made available on the Moodle 3 platform before lectures.
Norme CNR - Norme UNI
Ferrari e Giannini. Ingegneria stradale vol. 2 “Corpo stradale e pavimentazioni”.
Tesoriere G. - Strade, Ferrovie ed Aeroporti. Vol. II e III. UTET.
F. Annunziata, M. Coni, F. Maltinti, F.Pinna, S. Portas. Progettazione stradale integrata.Zannichelli, 2004
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. AASHTO guide for design of pavement structures.
Yoder, E. J. Witczak, M. W. Principles of pavement design. Second edition. Wiley Interscience
Yang Huang. Pavement Analysis and Design – second edition, 2004. Prentice Hall
Manuale di Ingegneria Civile. vol.III. Zanichelli.
M. Agostinacchio, D. Ciampa, S. Olita – Strade Ferrovie Aeroporti. II ed. EPC Libri, Roma 2007

EXCAVATIONS AND UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS

1 – Elements of soil mechanics
• Total stress and effective stress, stress path of soil elements.
• Permeability, drained and undrained conditions.
• Stress-strain behaviour of typical soil elements.
• Deformability and strength properties of soils.

2 – Elements of rock mechanics
• Basic concepts of rock material and rock mass, discontinuity (joints, faults).
• Survey and representation of orientation and spacing of discontinuities.
• Mechanical properties of rock materials and discontinuities.
• Quality index and classification systems for the rock mass (particularly, GSI)
• Deformability, strength and permeability of the rock mass.

3 – Excavation methods and support systems for underground structures
• Different types of underground excavations: shallow and deep tunnels, cavern and adits.
• Excavation methods: “cut and cover” and “blind face” excavation.
• “Drill and blast” and “Mechanized excavation”, typical support systems.
• Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for rock tunnels.
• “Earth Pressure Balance” and “Slurry Shield” machines for soil tunnels.
• Consolidation works by grouting and ground freezing.

4 – Geotechnical design of slopes and shallow excavations
• Stability analysis of cut and natural slopes.
• Limit equilibrium methods: plane wedges and slices methods.
• Short- and long-term conditions, influence of pore pressure and seismic actions.
• Design of sheet pile walls for cut and cover tunnels.

5 – Geotechnical design of deep tunnels
• In situ stress conditions, influence of topografy and geological stress history.
• Stress and strain around the cross-section of a deep tunnel (plane conditions)
• Stress and strain near the face of the tunnel (three-dimensional conditions)
• Excavation of a tunnel beneath the water table
• Analysis of stability: failure conditions for the face and for the tunnel cross-section.
• Analysis of ground-support interaction: convergence-confinement method
• Loads acting on tunnel support: lining systems for traditional excavation methods and mechanized excavation methods.
• Prediction of the settlement trough caused by tunnel excavation (empirical method) and assessment of possible damage.

Lecture notes prepared by the lecturer and further suggested readings.

The New “Codice dei contratti pubblici”. Project Design Phases.
The design process. The construction documents.
Roadway function and design controls. Coordination of Horizontal and Vertical Alignments.
Intersection and Interchange design. Basic elements. Models and tools for functionality assesment.
Applications with commercial road design software.

Documents provided by the teacher
Highway engineering handbook. McGraw Hill Companies
G. Da Rios. Le intersezioni stradali. UTET Università

The course is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and instruments for developing road safety analyses, audit and inspections according to the national and international actual regulations.

Specifically, during the lectures, it will be presented and discussed:
1) the most recent and effective methods and procedures for studying crash data, identifying crash factors and possible countermeasures, evaluating the effectiveness of road safety measures;
2) plans and programs for the management of the safety of road infrastructures;
3) the most advanced and effective technologies and tools used for improving road safety, according to a multidisciplinary approach based on driver-road-vehilce interactions: the driving simulation.

Moreover, some basic concept on the risk management of transport network related to critical event such as earthquakes, floods, fires... will be presented.

Finally, some seminars are expected by road safety experts.

Teacher's lectures and digital materials (i.e. video of the lectures).

1. Introduction to Mathematical Programming
Convex Programming
Linear Programming
2. Linear Programming Formulation
Resource allocation
Inventory Management
Project planning
3. Solving Linear Programming Problems
Geometry of Linear Programming
The Simplex Algorithm
4. Duality Theory
The weak and strong duality theorems
Orthogonality conditions
Sensitivity analysis
5. Non-linear programming
Gradient, Hessian
Local minimum, Necessary conditions (first and second order)
Local minimum, Sufficient conditions (secondo order and convex case)
Gradient method, Line search
Newton method,
6. Constrained non-linear programming
KKT conditions
Barrier method and Penalty functions

Accident analysis. Standards-based methods or performance-based methods for the road safety control. The functionality of the road network. The territorial and the traffic data banks. The accident data banks. Homogenous road segments. Risk assessment and accident analysis.
Standard design. Road geometry parameters and operating conditions. The surface road pavement conditions. Users’ behaviour: psychophysiological limits, objective and subjective safety degrees for the optimization of technical choices. Road users' risky behaviour.
Predictive accident models. European and national legislative procedures. Methods and techniques based on the analysis of geometric and kinematic standards. The “Road Safety Manual”. The “Highway Safety Manual”. Techniques based on neural networks. Techniques based on risk analysis.

Documents provided by the teacher.
A. Benedetto. Strade Ferrovie Aeroporti. Utet Università
Road Safety Manual. AIPCR
Highway Safety Manual. AASHTO

Transport System Definition. Modelling approach to transport systems. Supply system. Supply system modelling.
Travel Demand. Behavioural models based on random utility theory: Multinomial Logit, Nested Logit, Cross-Nested Logit, Probit.
Systematic utility formulation. Additive property. Logsum property. Calibration of behavioural models (Biogeme software). Aggregation.
Four steps models: emission, distribution, modal shift, route choice.
Assignment models. Travel demand estimation based on traffic counts. Within-day dynamic models.

“Transportation Systems Analysis. Models and Applications” (E. Cascetta, Springer, 2009)

Legislative and organizational requirements for road construction management. Road construction management: Gantt, Critical Path Method, Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Personnel, materials and equipments required for the road construction. Road construction work zones and effects on traffic flow. Methods of tunnel construction. Management of safety in road construction: legislation, safety plans. Environmental effects of the road construction. Barrier: legislation, types, parameters of performance.

Documentation will be provided by the lecturer. It will be made available on the Moodle 3 platform before lectures.
G. Dondi, C. Lantieri, A. Simone, V. Vignali ‘Costruzioni stradali: aspetti progettuali e costruttivi. Hoepli, 2014
F. Annunziata, M. Coni, F. Maltinti, F.Pinna, S. Portas. Progettazione stradale integrata. Zannichelli, 2004
G. Tesoriere ‘Strade ferrovie e aeroporti’ voll. I e II. UTET Editore.

Introduction to the air transport system; Main characteristics and types of Vehicles - Aircraft; Airways and Terminals: Main characteristics; Types of interactions between airway and aircraft; Interactions between aircrafts; Organizational methods and economic aspects. Overview of maritime transport system (components, technical terminology and characterization of sea trips);Main characteristics and types of vehicles used for maritime transport (ships, hydrofoils, hovercraft and types of ships); Infrastructures for navigation (channels) and main characteristics of maritime navigation; Type and characteristics of maritime transport services (scheduled and non-scheduled services, point-to-point services or hub & spoke systems); Intermodal transport of goods by sea (multi-modal cycle and complex single-mode cycle); Main characteristics and types of terminals used for maritime transport (components of ports and different types of terminals); Description of the components and the operations of a container terminal; Description of the components and the operations of a Ro-Ro terminal; Approaches and models for the functional design (layout definition, size of storage areas and equipment for handling loads) of port terminals.

Lecture notes. Sistemi di trasporto: tecnica e economia - G. E. Cantarella (a cura di) - UTET

Air Transport
Introduction to the air transport system; Main characteristics and types of Vehicles - Aircraft; Airways and Terminals: Main characteristics; Types of interactions between airway and aircraft; Interactions between aircrafts; Organizational methods and economic aspects.
Maritime transport
Overview of maritime transport system (components, technical terminology and characterization of sea trips);Main characteristics and types of vehicles used for maritime transport (ships, hydrofoils, hovercraft and types of ships); Infrastructures for navigation (channels) and main characteristics of maritime navigation; Type and characteristics of maritime transport services (scheduled and non-scheduled services, point-to-point services or hub & spoke systems); Intermodal transport of goods by sea (multi-modal cycle and complex single-mode cycle); Main characteristics and types of terminals used for maritime transport (components of ports and different types of terminals); Description of the components and the operations of a container terminal; Description of the components and the operations of a Ro-Ro terminal; Approaches and models for the functional design (layout definition, size of storage areas and equipment for handling loads) of port terminals.

Lecture notes.
Sistemi di trasporto: tecnica e economia - G. E. Cantarella (a cura di) – UTET

ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR DIFFERENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; LINE AND STOP CAPACITY; DETERMINATION OF THE LINE TRAVEL TIME; REPRESENTATION AND SIMULATION METHODS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORKS; DEFINITION OF FREQUENCIES AND TIMETABLE; DIMENSIONING OF VEHICLES CAPACITY; DEFINTION OF STOP SYSTEMS AND OPTIMAL STOPS NUMBER; RELIABILITY OF THE SERVICE; CONTROL STRATEGIES AND SERVICE ADJUSTMENT; DESIGN OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORKS; COSTS AND REVENUES IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS.

NOTES AND SLIDES ON THE COURSE BY THE TEACHER

REGULATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: FRAMEWORK AND OPERATIONAL TOOLS IN THE URBAN CONTEXT (URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANS). URBAN PERFORMANCE MEASURES. UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS: CAPACITY, CONFLICT VOLUMES AND DELAY FORMULA; LEVEL OF SERVICE. SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS: SIGNAL PARAMETERS, SATURATION FLOW, CAPACITY AND DELAY; LEVEL OF SERVICE; ACTUATED SIGNALES; COORDINATION. ROUNDABOUTS: OPERATING PRINCIPLES. CAPACITY, CONFLICT VOLUMES AND DELAY FORMULA; LEVEL OF SERVICE. PARKING AND PARKING AREAS FOR PRIVATE TRANSPORT. METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DESIGN OF PRIVATE TRANSPORT NETWORKS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: METHODS BASED ON OPTIMIZATION; METHODS BASED ON SIMULATION; DEFINITION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DECISION SUPPORT PROCEDURE. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES: INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS.
THE COURSE INVOLVES THE USE OF SOFTWARES FOR THE SIMULATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ON A SPECIFIC PROJECT TO BE CARRIED OUT.

LECTURE NOTES. HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL (2010). MONTELLA B., PIANIFICAZIONE E CONTROLLO DEL TRAFFICO URBANO: MODELLI E METODI, ED. CUEN .

Industrial logistic trends and problems (demand forecast, site optimization, stock management, service level)
Goods transport at international, national and company level
A solution of transport for each problem
Types of companies involved
The way of containerization
Vehicle Routing Problem
The intermodal transports (road, railway, ship) and the transhipment
The intermodal structures and global flows of goods
City logistics
Energy and environmental aspects of freight transport

«Business logistics/supply chain management» Ronald H. Ballou, Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (August 21, 2003)
«Logistics and supply chain management» Martin Kristopher, Publisher: FT Press; 4 edition (January 6, 2011)
«Modelli e metodi per l’organizzazione dei Sistemi logistici», G. Ghiani, R. Musmanno, Editore: Pitagora (31 ottobre 2000)
«Orientare al successo la supply chain», S.Cavalieri, R.Pinto, Editore: ISEDI; 2 edizione (1 aprile 2015)
«Handbook of Logistics and supply chain Management» (Handbooks in Transport), Editore: Pergamon (1 Jun. 2001) (1705)
«Supply chain Logistics management», D. Bowersox, D. Closs and M. Bixby Cooper, Mc Graw-Hill
Mc Graw Hill «Fundamental of logistics management», by D. M. Lambert, J.R. Stock, L. M. Ellram, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
F.Dallari «Corso di Logistica e Trasporti» Hoepli

The course is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and instruments for developing road safety analyses, audit and inspections according to the national and international actual regulations.

Specifically, during the lectures, it will be presented and discussed:
1) the most recent and effective methods and procedures for studying crash data, identifying crash factors and possible countermeasures, evaluating the effectiveness of road safety measures;
2) plans and programs for the management of the safety of road infrastructures;
3) the most advanced and effective technologies and tools used for improving road safety, according to a multidisciplinary approach based on driver-road-vehilce interactions: the driving simulation.

Moreover, some basic concept on the risk management of transport network related to critical event such as earthquakes, floods, fires... will be presented.

Finally, some seminars are expected by road safety experts.

Teacher's lectures and digital materials (i.e. video of the lectures).