Università: ricerca e didattica
The Politecnico di Torino is the second largest technical university, dealing with Engineering and Architecture, in Italy. It includes nearly 800 professors plus researchers and 700 administrative and technical staff.
The Politecnico has nearly 30.000 students studying on 120 courses; 12 of them are held in English. The Politecnico di Torino conducts research in tight cooperation with the enterprise system, also through a number of EU projects.
One of its 11 Departments, the DIATI (Department of Environment, Territory and Infrastructures), including a Transport engineering area, deals with the organization and promotion of research, education and tests concerning transport networks, installations and systems in a wide sense as well as related infrastructures, from their design to their operation, including the energy consumption. Within this context, those activities of the Department which are related to technological innovation and telematics for transport (i.e. ITS, Intelligent Transport Systems) are concerned with the procedures, the systems and the devices which allow – through the collection, communication, analysis, and distribution of information – to enhance the transport, mobility and logistics as well as the evaluation and quantification of the gained results. A number of publications, some projects and related educational material have been developed in the decades in relations with road-rail combined transport, intermodal techniques and terminals, modal choice, advanced solution for competitive freight transport.