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MARCO PASETTO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 9 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275569

Marco PASETTO was born in Padova (I) in 1962.
March 2002-today. Full Professor of "Roads, Railways and Airports" (ICAR/04) at the University of Padova.
July 2000. Full Professor title in examination at Ancona University.
1990-2002. Assistant Professor (ICAR/04) at the University of Padova.
1987-1990. Research contract with the Highways and Transport Institute at the University of Padova.
1987-03-23. Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Transport Course) at the University of Padova (110/110 magna cum laude).

Coordinator of the Road Laboratory.
President in Master of Science of CE sessions.
President of the Commission of qualifying examination for Architecture and Engineering at the University of Padova (2010).
Professor at the University of Padova, of: “Railway and Airport infrastructures” (6 ECTs), "Design, rehabilitation and management of road infrastructures" (8 ETCs). Director since 2017 of the Master course on “Planning, design, construction and management of airport infrastructures”.
Supervising professor or more than 300 students’ theses (Bachelor and Master degree).
Professor in different courses and Masters in IUAV Venezia, SSIS-Special Courses (Veneto Region), ANAS, Architecture Dept. of the University of Padova, Private bodies (e.g. Motorways Societies).
Member of PhD School of Civil Engineering in Padova since 2018.
Organizer of Padova 2008-2018 Workshops on “Reuse of marginal materials in Road Construction” (2010, 2013, 2017 International), 2010 Workshop on "Road safety" (Albignasego) and 2009 Workshop on "Materials CE marking" (Padova); Padova 2003 SIIV Italian Road Congress; Verona 2001 SIIV Italian Road Congress; SIIV Summer School on Innovative materials for road construction (2013, Montegrotto Terme), 2019 ISAP APE.

Member of:
SIIV-Italian Society for Road Infrastructures, President 2013-2014;
C.I.R.S.-Interuniversity Center of Road and Airport Research, component of the Board of Directors 2002-ongoing;
AIIT-Italian Society of Traffic and Transport Engineering, Triveneto President 2011-ongoing;
ISAP-International Society for Asphalt Pavements, chairman TC APE WG6 "By-products & Secondary Materials Recycling in Asphalt Pavements" 2013-ongoing; Member of WG5 “Re-Use of Construction Materials” in the TC on Constitutive Modelling of Asphaltic Materials;
AAPT-Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists;
PIARC-Permanent International Association of Road Congresses, component of the Italian TC "Road bridges" - chairman WG " Pavements"
UNI (Italian Standard Body) Convenor of SC2-WG 3+4 (concrete pavements+unbound and hydraulically bound mixtures and marginal materials);
RILEM TC SIB TG6 Cold Recycling.
Member of MIUR-Italian University and Research Ministry Register of CIVR experts and Register of PRIN and FIRB Projects evaluation experts; reviewer for VQR products.
Member of the WG Green Roads at the Ministry of Environment.

Referee on behalf of more than 30 international journals. Member of the Editorial Board of the Road Materials and Pavement Design and Transportation Engineering, the Scientific Committee of the Journal "Trasporti & Cultura” (2006-ongoing), the Journal of Pavement Engineering and Asphalt Technology.
Referee on behalf of several international congresses. Principal investigator in several Research projects. Author of more than 300 scientific works.

Notices

Educational material can be found in the web site https://sites.google.com/site/stradeferrovieaeroportigroup/Home
In the web site there are specific links to the web page of each course, where the teaching material (password protected) can be downloaded only by students attending the lessons.
In the home page, information about lessons timetable, meeting with students, exams date, etc. are described.
In the web site, there is also a detailed description concerning the "Transport" curriculum, activities of the "Roads Railways and Airports" group as well as scientific societies which the group belongs to (CIRS, HIT, Levi-Cases, AIIT, SIIV).
Lessons of past years can be downloaded in the Moodle platform; registration is mandatory.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods can change according to the evolution of COVID pandemic.


Teachings

Research Area

Main topics:
- traffic planning and management;
- noise, air pollution and vibrations related to traffic;
- road geometry and traffic safety;
- maintenance management systems;
- design of road and airport pavements;
- marginal materials: characterisation and application;
- advanced characterisation of bituminous (traditional and high performance) mixtures;
- heat harvesting applied to road pavements;
- road drivers' behavior and traffic safety;
- airport risk assessment;
- arrestor beds in roads and airports.

Thesis proposals

Theses to be directly planned with the Professor.
Topics concerning the arguments discussed during the lessons of "Roads, Railways and Airports" and "Railway and Airport infrastructures", to be developed in the Road laboratory or different structures or ways.
Main possible topics:
- traffic planning and management;
- noise, air pollution and vibrations related to traffic;
- road geometry and traffic safety;
- maintenance management systems;
- design of road and airport pavements;
- marginal materials: characterisation and application;
- advanced characterisation of bituminous (traditional and high performance) mixtures;
- road drivers' behavior and traffic safety;
- airport risk assessment;
- arrestor beds in roads and airports.