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15788
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
1
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| Workload |
TP(16H)
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| Scientific area |
Engenharia Civil
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Entry requirements |
Secondary education or bachelor's degree.
Basic knowledge of transportation and traffic.
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Learning outcomes |
Introduce and develop aspects related to freeways’ road traffic conditions, providing trainees with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to analyse freways’ level of service and capacity.
Skills:
(a) Mastery of the theoretical and practical knowledge that supports the analysis of road traffic conditions on basic freeways segments, in particular aspects related to the determination of capacity and level of service.
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Syllabus |
1. INTRODUCTION
HCM, fundamental concepts of level of service and capacity, the importance of determining road capacity and level of service.
2. ANALYSIS OF BASIC FREEWAY SEGMENTS LEVEL OF SERVICE AND CAPACITY
Scope and limitations of the methodology, basic freeway segments, base conditions, input data and typical values, operational analysis: procedure for determining the level of service and capacity of basic freeways segments.
3. EXERCISES.
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Main Bibliography |
Santos, Bertha. 2023. Níveis de serviço e capacidade em secções de autoestradas. Manual de formação. Covilhã, Universidade da Beira Interior.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Highway Capacity Manual 7th Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26432.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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