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CODE 84196
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/06
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

Course description

Urban Logistics.

The course aims to enable students to analyze issues to understand the origins of urban transport failure, possible strategies and policy lines.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course studies the mobility of people and goods in cities, and more generally in urban areas, and the role this mobility plays in the city itself. The course highlights the contribution of urban logistics to the quality and economic efficiency of city life, both in terms of production (the most significant and economically valuable production processes are situated in urban areas) and consumption (mobility is a major driver for the use of urbanization economies for businesses and individuals).

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowledge and Understanding. Students should have knowledge and effective ability to understand phenomena related to urban logistics.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Students should be able to apply knowledge to understand urban context and its economic functioning.

Autonomy. Students must develop autonomous evaluation skills and critical sense in relation to urban mobility (people and urban freight logistics).

Learning skills. Students must develop adequate learning skills to independently explore the subjects of the discipline.

PREREQUISITES

Transportation Economics is recommended

TEACHING METHODS

 Lessons and discussions about urban logistics.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part I: urban economics

Part II: urban transport, sustainable urban mobility

Part III: failures of urban mobility

Part IV: local public transport

Part V: innovative urban mobility models

Part VI: urban freight logistics

Part VII: urban mobility policies 

Part IX: self-driving vehicles

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

It will be indicated on aulaweb and/or Teams 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

CLAUDIA BURLANDO (President)

CLAUDIO FERRARI

HILDA GHIARA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2° Sem. (February).

 

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written exam, which can be repeated three per academic year, according to current rules.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
19/12/2024 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
16/01/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
06/02/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
27/05/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
10/06/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
10/07/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
12/09/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further info: claudia.burlando@unige.it

 

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