The course provides the necessary knowledge to develop models to understand, to support and to evaluate the solution of given planning problems.The course is composed of a lecture part, providing the theoretical knowledge, and an applied part in which students develop their own models in order to evaluate a transport project/policy.

Introduction of the basic principles of the design and operation oftransport systems (road, rail, air) and of the essential pathways of theirimpacts (investment, generalised costs, accessibilities, external effects), referring to relatively constant, and factors with substantial future uncertainty, in the past and expected evolution of transport systems.