Economic Calculations and Valuations of Costs in the Transport Sector Course code: 218028 | 9 ECTS credits
Basic information
Level of Studies:
Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study:
2
Semester:
3
Requirements:
Goal:
Acquiring appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge of the investment costs, and transport infrastructure expenditure, and cost of exploitation.
Outcome:
Students will be able to understand the basic principles of financial valuation in road and railway traffic and transportation engineering, analyze models and revenue streams, investment costs, and assess the justification of investment.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
- Investment costs and expenditures of transportation infrastructure.
- Revenue streams and revenue models - toll collection systems and railway infrastructure charges.
- Examples of innovative billing systems in the EU countries.
- Optimization of investment costs, expenditures, and cost of exploitation.
- Cost/Benefit analysis for investment justification..
- Innovative ways for financing road and railway transport infrastructure.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
- Practical instruction is followed by a lecture program and is performed by a combination of classical exercises through an introduction to the concepts of financial evaluation and financing models through case studies.
Textbooks and References
- Bojović, N., „Ekonomika železničkog saobraćaja“, Saobraćajni fakultet Beograd, Beograd, 2011
- Bateson,
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures:
4
Practical classes:
4
Other types of classes:
0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
0
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
0
colloquium
0
Final exam
Points
Written exam
0
Oral exam
0