De elektronische studiegids voor het academiejaar 2025 - 2026 is onder voorbehoud.





Transport Infrastructure_DL (4326)

  
Coordinating lecturer :Prof. dr. Evelien POLDERS 
  
Co-lecturer :Prof. dr. ir. Ali PIRDAVANI 
  
Member of the teaching team :De heer Brent PETERS 


Language of instruction : English


Credits: 4,0
  
Period: semester 1 (4sp)
  
2nd Chance Exam1: Yes
  
Final grade2: Numerical
 
Exam contract: not possible


 
Sequentiality
 
   Mandatory sequentiality bound on the level of programme components
 
 

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for this course.



Content

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.

The majority of your learning will be done through self-study, based on the course material that is made available online. You will have access to a range of useful online learning materials such as online lectures, reading materials, as well as access to thousands of e-books, online journals and other resources via our online university library. Approximately mid-semester, an online interactive Question and Answer session will be organised, where students can meet the course lecturer and fellow students online and have the opportunity to go deeper into the course material.

All evaluations will be done online, whether by submission of assignments or by taking written or oral exams online, or a combination of assignments and exams. Written exams will be done with online proctoring (exam supervision) to retain the integrity of a supervised exam, while providing the flexibility of an online platform. For the online exams, distance learning students should ensure to have a laptop/pc with a working webcam and microphone, a charged mobile device (phone/tablet) and a stable internet connection (minimum upload speed of 1.5 MB/second), as well as a quiet, secluded room to take the exam in.



Organisational and teaching methods
Organisational methods  
Distance learning  
Response lecture  


 

Compulsory course material
 

International handbook on mega-projects. van Wee, B., & Priemus, H.,  Edgar Elgar Publishing Limited, e-book accessible for students through the website of the UHasselt library: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.bib proxy.uhasselt.be/lib/ubhasselt/detail.action?docID=1569405

Slides and additional course materials will be provided via Blackboard.



Learning outcomes
  EC = learning outcomes      DC = partial outcomes      BC = evaluation criteria  
Offered inTolerance3
part 1 Master of Transportation Sciences (by distance learning) J



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