Transport and Environment

Specialization / Direction

Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation

The course is also offered to exchange programme students.

The students, upon successful completion of the course, will have more critical ability regarding the issue of environmental protection and their quality of life, with particularly targeted results: 1. They will be able to understand the degree of interaction of the impacts of the various transport systems (road, sea, rail, air, river, pipeline) with the environment (physical, social, economic), mainly through the interactive demonstration, at a basic level, of relevant computer models and methods (eg noise maps, pollution simulation, air pollutants emission, carbon footprint calculation, pollutant concentration assessment, visual disturbance). 2. Familiarize themselves with the content, objectives and results of international management standards of environment (ISO 14001, EMAS, PERS), quality (ISO 9001, ISM), health and safety at work (ISO 45001), and energy (ISO 50001) applied by management bodies of transport infrastructure / means / services. 3. They will have expanded their future professional / scientific / research work alternatives, having sufficiently understood issues such as health and safety at work (Safety Technician), the drafting of an EIA (Expert / Consultant), the organization and auditing of ISO type management systems (Internal and / or External ISO Inspector), the transport of dangerous goods / waste (Consultant for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods), the preparation of emergency plans for land and marine pollution (Expert / Consultant), the preparation of ship-generated management plans (Expert / Consultant). 4. They will be acquainted with the modern technological, research and future developments in the means, the infrastructure and the operation of the transport systems. 5. They will realize the importance and understant contemporary issues of wider environmental and social impact such as the response and adaptation to climate change, the energy use and utilization, the environmental migration, the resiliense, the impacts of warfare. 6. They will know the basic elements of the economics of the environment and will understand its role in the study of transport systems, mainly through practice in solving relevant problems. 7. They will have a complete picture of the international, European and national legislative and regulatory framework that governs all the individual environmental and other issues that will be developed in the lectures, being able to deal more effectively with relevant problems that they will be called upon to manage.

• Elements and data of the transport-environment interaction. • Current and future technological and research developments. • Environmental impacts assessment in road, sea, air, rail, river and pipeline transport systems, through computing methods and tools, and relevant managerial measures. • Environmental economics. • Health and safety at work. • Response and adaption to climate change. • Transportation of dangerous goods and waste. • Ship-generated waste management. • Response to coastal-marine pollution. • The international standards on environmental management (ISO 14001, EMAS, PERS), quality (ISO 9001, ISM), health and safety at work (ISO 45001) and energy (ISO 50001). • Energy resources and use of renewable energy sources. • Environmental migration. • Resiliense. • Impacts of military operations. • Exercises.

transport, environment, impacts, computing methods, management

22-10-2021