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	INFORMATION RELEASE of May 6 1998: 
	1998 EDITION Of the REFRESHER COURSE the DESIGN OF ROADS 

	The fourth edition of the refresher course on " the Design of Roads " will be given at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in three consecutive FRIDAYS and a SATURDAY, (29 May, 5 - 12 - 13 June 1998). The course is full immersion, it will take 32 hours of lessons, and will consist of documentation, operating workshops on the use of software and other research materials; there will be the participation of external expert teachers, and a final study trip to visit works and realizations. Official language is Italian, French lectures will be simultaneously transleted in Italian. The course will distribute to the enrolled an annual dossier of documentation, software with reviews of materials from the Internet, case studies, bibliographical legal and normative data bases. 
	The course is addressed to engineers, architects, planners, technicians, professionals and responsibles of the traffic, urban planning, environmental departments of local agencies; moreover it is addressed to simple citizens interested participating in the design of its own urban environment. To the participants the course will release a final certificate. 

	 The course in the three days will face three main topics: 
1) The requalification of the main roads, their insertion in the landscape and in the urban environment. The evolution of the culture of the road design, in projects, plans and realisations in the best European experiences. 

2) From the norm to the plan: city streets, the urban planning, traffic plans. A review of the Italian norms and laws in relation with the design of roads (the Traffic Act, the NRC Regulations, Directives for the Traffic Plans, Urban Planning rules, regulations for bicycle tracks, parkings, the defence of pedestrian...); besides some local traffic plans dealing with strategies for the  requalification of the street space will be analyzed (Corsico, Villasanta, Melegnano...). 

3) From the norm to the handbook. International experiences: Traffic Calming and city quality in different countries of the EC. Comparison of norms and approaches. Typologies of solutions for the TC (residential areas, Zones 30, physical TC devices, city qualification...). European handbooks comparison (VSS, CETUR, EAE, HMSO, ITE, CNR...). 

	The Workshops will be dealing with three topics: 
- the use of the bibliographical and normative data-base on transportation, a floppy disk available from the course, containing files in Windows Cardfile and HTML format, and other technical documentation.       
- Traffic plans (PUT) and simulation models: Happy-Trails a software worked out at Politecnico di Milano. 
- Resources in network: Internet, the Web, the Newsgroups. Archives, data-base and documentation centers on the design of roads; plans, projects, handbooks and other resources available on line. 

         The teachers of the course are: 
Lydia Bonanomi, IREC-EPFL, Lausanne (CH)
Giampaolo Corda, DST, Politecnico di Milano 
Giuseppe Di Giampietro, DST, Politecnico di Milano 
Bruno Gandino, Urbafor, Turin 
Giorgio Goggi, DST, Politecnico di Milano 
Luca Guerrini, DVTM, Politecnico di Milano 
Andreas Kipar, Land srl, Milan 
Anna Moretti, DST (director of the course) 
Luciano Minotti, Centro Studi PIM, Milan 
Federico Oliva, DST, Politecnico di Milano 
Raffaele Pugliese, DPA, Politecnico di Milano 
Giovanni Ruggia, Dipartimento Territorio, Canton Ticino (CH)  
Paola Villani, DST, Politecnico di Milano 

         Information and enrolment: 
Ufficio Istruzione Permanente Architettura, arch. Daniela Guaita - Politecnico di Milano, via Bonardi, 3 - 20133 Milan, Italy 
tel +(0039) 2-2399-2630  fax +(0039) 2-2399-2631
        or directly to the coordinator of the course: 
Giuseppe Di Giampietro, arch. ph.D.  mailto:digiampietro@iol.it 
 	For real time information on appointments, topics, available documentation of the course,  there is a web site to consult from which some material can be downloaded, as the registration form, at the URL: 

         http://users.iol.it/digiampietro

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