Design of Transport Infrastructures - Financial Elements

Railway: Introduction. Kinematics of Trains. Elements of Horizontal and Topographical Studies. Undergrounding of Railway Lines. Line Changes. Airports: Introduction. Types, Forms and Installation Parts of Airports. Categories of Airports. Aircraft Flight Data. Runway Length Calculation. Runways. Runway and taxiway layouts and elevation configurations. Earthworks. Economic and technical data (General principles for the preparation of economic and technical studies): Introduction. The concepts of supply and demand in transport projects, Cost elements of transport projects, Interaction of supply and demand, Resources in transport projects, Economic studies and methodology for their preparation. Financial and Economic Evaluation of Transport Projects, Financing of Transport Projects

The goal of this course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of geometric design of railway and airport infrastructure as well as the fundamental principles of transport economics and the economic and technical analysis of a transport project.