Below you can find a summary of the courses I am currently teaching t at BarcelonaTech-UPC (Civil Engineering School of Barcelona). In addition, here you can find some audiovisual and interactive material I use as short teaching pills.

URBAN MOBILITY    [Master in Civil Engineering; 2^nd year; Optional]

The course aims to train students in the planning and management of urban mobility. The focus of the course is conceptual. It gives greater importance to the concepts and ideas to the detriment of facts, statistics and other descriptive aspects. This requires a significant degree of abstraction, which is balanced by homework assignments with a more practical focus. After an introductory session, the course consists of 3 main parts. The first aims to convey the fundamental concepts of planning collective transportation systems, regardless of their technological support used. Specific attention is devoted to the Barcelona case study. The second section deals with paratransit systems, flexible public transportation systems not subject to schedules and routes, and with the more innovative strategies of shared vehicles. Finally, the third section addresses the urban traffic management.

• Link to Urban Mobility OCW
• Syllabus (only for topics reference)

OPERATION & MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS [Master’s degree in Urban Mobility, 1^st year, Core subject]

The course presents concepts of transport operations that should be understood by every student of transportation engineering or planning, regardless of his or her background or specific professional interests, and prepares the student for further study in this field. The course focuses on logic, ways of thinking and basic assessment tools (predominantly graphical) suitable in order to obtain solutions to problems that commonly arise in transportation operations.  The ideas covered in the course are those that, by virtue of their grounding in physical reality, are most likely to stand the test of time, and should be considered fundamentals.

• Link to Operations OCW
• Syllabus (only for topics reference)

TRAFFIC    [Master’s degree in Urban Mobility, 2^nd year, Optional]

The course examines the attributes of highway transportation systems, including traffic flow features and theories. Emphasis is given to principles and concepts and their application. It addresses issues regarding freeway/highway traffic operation (i.e. diagnosis). Discussions include methods of measuring traffic variables and of processing these measurements to evaluate prevailing conditions, to identify bottleneck locations, to uncover bivariate relations, etc. Considerable discussion is also be devoted to techniques for modeling traffic. This is only the first part of a traffic operations course. Freeway management techniques and highway traffic control (e.g. signal systems) are out of the scope of the course.

• Link to Traffic OCW
• Syllabus (only for topics reference)