The program is taught in block format with roughly 50 hours of teaching for each course spanning five to eight weeks per course. All students will be exposed to 20 hours of teaching and 20 to 30 hours of homework per week. In each semester there are two weeks of examinations, a change relative to the traditional five-week examination period in existing Portuguese programs. All 10 subjects listed next (for the fall and spring terms) are required subjects. In addition, a subject related to thesis preparation is required. RDM - Risk and Decision MakingCoordinator:This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (IST)
Co-instructors:Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCT-UC)
Credits: 6 ECTS
 Risk and Decision Making Syllabus
Objectives: - To develop familiarity and critical understanding of core concepts and support tools to facilitate decision making in the face of uncertainty/risk and different value systems resulting from multiple objectives and/or multiple stakeholders
- To develop an informed understanding of frameworks for decision problems structuring, preference modeling and choice, along with their characteristics, techniques, tools and applicability
- To develop the ability to relate concepts to practice and skills to model real-world problems in a structured way that supports rational decision making
Main Topics: - Framing and structuring decision problems
- Uncertainty and variability modeling: probability models; risk analysis and management
- Coping with uncertainty and risk: risk attitudes; preference modeling; utility theory; value of information
- Structuring sequential decisions: decision trees and influence diagrams
- Multicriteria decision analysis; compensatory, non-compensatory and outranking methods
- Multiattribute utility models (with and without interactions)
- Cooperative and non-cooperative games.
- Conflict, bargaining and cooperation.
TSA - Transport Systems Analysis
Coordinator:This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (FEUP)
Co-instructors:This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (FCT-UC), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (MIT)
Credits: 6 ECTS Transportation Systems Analysis Objectives: - To provide students with knowledge and skills for efficient network planning and design
- To provide students with knowledge for modeling of large-scale systems in decision making domains and the optimization of such systems using appropriated optimization tools
Main Topics: - Network analysis, architecture and design processes
- Hierarchy and interconnectivity in network design
- Modeling tools and techniques including linear, network, discrete and nonlinear optimization, heuristic methods, sensitivity and pots-optimality analysis, decomposition methods for large-scale systems and stochastic optimization
- Optimal Routing of Traffic Flows with User Constraints in Networks with Congestion Route Guidance in Traffic Networks
- Assessing network redundancies and system optimizations
- Traffic Flow Models and Traffic Flow Management in Road Networks Simulation Models
- Analysis of requirements: user, network, processes, technological devices
ICT - Information and Communication Technologies Coordinator: Pedro Bizarro (FCT-UC)
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Credits: 6 ECTS
Information and Communication Technologies Syllabus Objectives: - Intensive review of information technology intended to cover the major topics applicable to intelligent information systems. An approach to systems modelling with UML provides an universal tool for the design and implementation of information systems in an organizational framework.
- Cover the key concepts in the major areas of information technology, to enable students to successfully understand, work with and manage IT efforts as part of supply chain, transportation or civil engineering projects.
Main Topics: - Architecture of Information Systems
- Technologies supporting information systems and communications (portal technologies, electronic marketplace)
- Determination of user requirements in information and communication systems
- Unified Modeling Language (UML): Types of Diagrams: Class; Use Case; Collaboration; Sequence; State Transition; Component
- Database Management Systems and SQL: Entity-Relationship model; normal forms; SQL; Views; Integrity and Security; Transactions
TEPE - Transport Economics and Project Evaluation Coordinator: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (IST)
Co-instructors: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (MIT), João Claro (FEUP), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (FEUP)
Credits: 6 ECTS
Transport Economics and Project Evaluation Syllabus Objectives: - Knowledge of the key factors underlying the role of transport economics and pricing mechanism in the performance of transport systems
- Understanding the scope of pricing mechanism and regulation in the transport markets
- Mastering the key techniques for economic evaluation of projects
- Understanding the scope and master the skills for the assessment of major transport projects
Main topics: - The framework of Transport Economics
- Consumers, Markets, Production
- The Price Mechanism
- Principal Agent Relationship
- Economic evaluation of projects and policies
- Social cost-benefit analysis and valuation of externalities
TPPA - Transport Planning and Performance AssessmentCoordinator: Filipe Moura (IST)
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Credits: 6 ECTS
Transport Planning and Performance Assessment Syllabus
Objectives: - Knowledge of the key factors underlying the evolution of mobility levels and options, for people and for freight
- Understanding the framework of transport systems planning in multiple countries, and its evolving paradigm
- Mastering the key skills and techniques for modeling human behavior (choices) on mobility and reactions to several types of stimuli
- Understanding the scope and master the skills for the multi-dimensional assessment of the performance of transport systems
Main topics: - Mobility as a social integrator and its main driving forces
- The framework of Transport Planning
- Transport, Land Use and the Environment
- Modeling as the key planning support
- Transport Network Performance Assessment
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