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Transportation Infrastructure

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0039/02
Abbreviation DINF
Course title Transportation Infrastructure
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator Ing. Václav Škvain

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, basic legislation.
2. Roads - category, directional and elevation solutions, transverse arrangement, drainage.
3. Pavement and its construction, ground body of the road, objects in the route.
4. Municipal roads for motor transport, parking and garages, pedestrian and cyclist routes, crossing of different types of transport, transportation without barriers.
5. Crossroads.
6. Division of tracks. Railway structures, railways, modernization of the railway network.
7. Constructional and geometrical track layout, spatial layout of the track. Railway superstructure (track construction, crossings, ...).
8. Railway substructure (design principles, drainage ...).
9. Railways stations (purpose, division, equipment, ...), sorting railway station (principles, technical and construction equipment, KOMPAS automation), tracks of industrial plants (purpose, location, types, equipment, ...).
10. Rail transport in cities, route design, building elements.
11. Definition of airport and airport areas, division of airports into species, description of individual types of airports, breakdown by classes and categories.
12. Factors influencing airport design - geomorphological shape of the terrain, meteorological conditions, physical properties of the terrain.
13. Take-off and landing runways - determination of direction and length, speeds, dimensioning of runway pavements, surface quality.
14. Technical characteristics airports. Objects of the airport facility. Heliports.

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VŠB-TUO): 2270039 Transportation Infrastructure

Literature

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. The Highways Agency, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/
ESVELD, C. Modern Railway Track. Second Edition. MRT- Productions, Delft 2001

Advised literature

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/m22-01.htm
MEYER, M. and E. Miller. Urban Transportation Planning. McGraw-Hill, 2000.