Transportation Engineering (Road and Bridge Design)

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The European Union transport policy has the purpose of ensuring a high level of mobility to people and businesses throughout the EU.Traffic in Europe is dominated by road transport. Society major and long-term investments are focused on construction of transport infrastructure. To ensure the further development of transport infrastructures in Latvia the society required highly skilled professionals who can design roads, bridges and other transport infrastructure facilities, manage and maintain them during its service life, as well conduct scientific researches and to develop the new construction engineering theories and methods.

Professional Master study program Transportation engineering proposed in Riga Technical University is developed in the light of higher-education trends in Europe. Nominal length for full-time studies is 2,5 years. Program is developed to be recognizable in Europe. The students get both theoretical knowledge and practical skills and could be competitive in a European labor market.

The aim of bachelor study program is to prepare specialists having theoretical knowledge, as well as skills and competences necessary for industrial and research work in transport infrastructure engineering.Master study program provides qualification: Professional master degree in Transport Infrastructure Engineering and Transport Infrastructure Engineer qualification. During masterstudies students have lectures, practical and laboratory works, as well as individual studies. The program included practical training during semester praxis in industry companies, where the students should apply the theoretical knowledges practically and obtain the professional skills. The development of practical skills has been provided in working on study projects, where students preparing designs based on really topographical plan and geological section.

The content and realization of the study program ensure their sustainability and correspond to main aims of the higher education - the development of personality, democratic society and research, conformity with labor market demands.

COMPULSORY COURSES

Modern Materials for Developing Construction

The Finite Element Method (General Course)

Probabilistic Methods in Structural Analysis

Foundations of Transportation Infrastructure

Highway Design (basic course)

Bridges (basic course)

Basics of Occupational Safety

Specialized courses

Highway (study project I)

Transport and Environment

Road Pavements

Highway (study project II)

Timber Bridges ( study project)

Road Construction 1

Maintenance of Roads

Highway (study project III)

Reinforced Concrete Bridges ( study project)

Highway Construction 2

Planning and Organization of Road Building

Structural Assessment

Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory

Road Traffic Safety (study project)

Road Traffic Safety

Steel Bridges ( study project)

Pre-stressed Concrete Bridges (study project)

Lecturers

Subjects of Transportation engineering are taught by academic staff of high qualification professors, associated professors, docents and lecturers. All teaching staffs are involved in research work.The main scientific fields are: Road and traffic safety; Analysis of the road bituminous coating; Analysis of bridge structure safety and durability; Optimization of spatial parameters for road projects.