Course syllabus

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ACE640 Transport Infrastructure Design and Planning lp2 (7.5 hp)

Course Description

The course aims to teach concepts and key knowledge in transport infrastructure design and planning including urban public transport infrastructure and road pavement. This consists of education and knowledge about the process, commonly used methods and practice of designing urban public transport infrastructure (i.e., station and route network), and road infrastructure (e.g. pavement). The overall aim is that students learn, understand and know how to design transport infrastructure satisfying regulatory standards in an efficient and sustainable way. 

Course Objectives

1. Understand the concepts and process of urban public transport infrastructure and road pavement design.
2. Understand and apply theoretical and computational methods for solving real-world problems:
   a) Know the principles and process of urban public transport infrastructure design and planning
   b) Understand and apply the procedure and models of urban public transport demand estimation
   c) Understand and apply design and optimization methods of urban public transport infrastructure
   d) Understand cost-benefit analysis of urban public transport infrastructure
   e) Understand the standards, criteria and processes of road pavement design
   f) Understand the influencing factors of road pavement performance and their effects
   g) Understand and apply methods for estimating longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamic loads based on traffic volume
   h) Know and apply methods of designing asphalt road pavement according to traffic flow and environment
3. Apply and evaluate transport infrastructure design and planning processes and methods into practical real-world examples.
4. Understand and evaluate the potential career paths in transportation engineering field.

Schedule

Time edit: Chalmers - ACE640_50_HT25_27130, Design och planeri...

Course schedules and details:Course schedule for ACE640_2025Autumn.pdf

Course literature

All required materials will be available in Canvas.

Copies of PowerPoint slides, recordings of lectures and related references for each part, will be made available to students in Canvas as well.

White, Peter R. Public transport: its planning, management and operation. Routledge, 2016.
Daganzo, Carlos F., and Yanfeng Ouyang. Public transportation systems: Principles of system design, operations planning and real-time control. 2019.
AASHTO, Guide. "Guide for design of pavement structures." American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, DC (1993).
Thom, Nick. Principles of pavement engineering. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.

Course tasks and assessment

 The course will involve the following teaching and learning components: lectures; tutorials and quizzes; projects; homework; and examination. The schedule for the above contents will be available on Canvas. The assessment of the course is based on performances in these components. Homework assignments are individual tasks. Meanwhile, there are two project work in this courses. Tutorials are given to enhance and recall the learned knowledge on time. Exam relies highly on in-class examples and exercises, tutorials as well as homework assignments.

The assessment of this course is based on the following four principles:

• Encourage active learning and reinforce learning.
• Robustly and fair evaluate student performance in the course.
• Fair and equitable for students to demonstrate what they have learned and their efforts.
• Maintain academic standards.

The detailed assessment criterion is summarized below.

Course Grading System for the Exam and the Whole Course

The perfect score is 100.

Teachers

Kun Gao, gkun@chalmers.se (Examiner and contact person)

Arsalan Najafi, arsalan.najafi@chalmers.se

Xiaohan Liu, xiaohanl@chalmers.se

Student representatives

Jinat Tasnim Dristy, MPIEE   jinattasnim655@gmail.com       
Unni Granfors,  MPIEE   granforsunni@gmail.com 
Ramez Sbinati, MPIEE   ramezking5@yahoo.se    
Alva Sellgren,  MPIEE   sellgrenalva@gmail.com 
Alva Sonesson, MPIEE   alva.sonesson01@gmail.com