There are no specific prerequisites for this course.

This course covers two crucial aspects of transport infrastructure: the design and project management of infrastructure projects for the transportation of people and goods.

The infrastructure design segment introduces students to the key elements involved in transport infrastructure design. This includes understanding the individual components of the infrastructure and the processes and tools that integrate these parts. Students will gain insights into the following topics:

• Introduction to road infrastructure design
• Road categorization
• Road section design: sight, horizontal and vertical alignments
• Cross-sections
• Discontinuities
• Intersections and interchanges

The project management segment focuses on the various aspects of managing transport mega-projects. These projects are complex, costly, and large-scale, significantly impacting entire countries or regions. The course covers project management from front-end planning to actual project delivery, addressing stakeholder management, risk, finance, complexity, innovation, governance, and ethics. It also examines common mistakes and risks in preparing and delivering mega-projects—such as underestimated costs, overestimated revenues, undervalued environmental impacts, and overvalued economic development effects—and offers practical solutions to manage these risks.