Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

This subject belongs to the minor in Transport Engineering and Urban Services. It is taught in the seventh semester (fourth year) of the Civil Engineering undergraduate degree.

The subject is divided into the following activities: lectures, recitations (design cases), laboratory and computer practice. All these activities are focused on giving the future graduate a proper training for of designing, constructing and operating road networks and other related infrastructures, especially on traffic management and road safety.

RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND

Although no specific academic prerequisite is required to take this course, it is recommended that the student has completed the course 33531 or, alternatively, either of other two minor equivalent subjects (33529 or 33530).

RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs):

DIGITALIZATION:

Programming of various practical exercises with calculation tools.
Use of professional traffic microsimulation software (AIMSUN Next)

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
  • CT12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
  • CT13 : Capacity to adopt the scientific method when planning and carrying out different academic and professional tasks.
  • CT7 : Capacity for oral and written exposition.
  • CT8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
  • CT9 : Capacity for group work.

 

Specific Competences (Specific Technology):>>Transit and Urban Services

  • CET1 : Capacity to build and preserve roads, as well as the sizing, planning and building of the elements that make up highway equipment. Capacity to plan, build and preserve road transport infrastructures.
  • CET4 : Understand the influence of infrastructures on spatial planning and the development of urban public areas, such as water supply and distribution, sanitation and water treatment, waste management, transport system, traffic, lighting, energy and communications.
  • CET5 : Understand the design and working of modal interchange infrastructures, such as ports, airports, railway and bus stations and transport logistics centre. Knowledge of transport engineering, planning and management.

 

Basic Transversal Competences

  • CB2 : Students should know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional manner and should have those skills that are usually reflected when preparing and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
  • CB3 : That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • CB5 : Students should have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake later studies with a high level of autonomy.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

  • To know and understand basic and applied principles of Traffic Engineering.
  • To know and understand basic and applied principles of road safety.
  • To develop the student's ability to critically analyze the traffic problem.
  • To know how to use, interpret and apply different methods of traffic management.
  • To know how to use the right techniques to develop road safety programs.
  • To know how to interpret the regulations, bibliography and specific information of the subject, so that the student reinforces their learning and complements their training.

 

 

General

Code: 33547
Lecturer responsible:
Bañón Blázquez, Luis
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: BUILDING SCIENCIES AND URBANISM DEPARTMENT
    Area: URBAN DESING AND REGIONAL PLANNING UNIT
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 0
  • Dept: CIVIL ENGINEERING
    Area: INFRAESTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT ENGINEERING
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught