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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Urban Roads and Intersections

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0053/02
Abbreviation MKK
Course title Urban Roads and Intersections
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Mahdalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1st Urban Communications and the applicable regulations
2nd Crossroads - concepts and definitions, types and types of intersections
3rd Design elements of level crossings, transit check with bottom curves
4th Design features of roundabouts and interchanges
5th Sight conditions at intersections and exits
6th Pedestrian crossings, the crossing points
7th Design of intersections, the location of the route, accidents
8th Control intersections with traffic light, traffic modeling PTV VISSIM
9th Unmotorcar communication and communication with mixed traffic
10th Traffic calming
11th Routing of local roads, design elements
12th Drainage of roads and intersections
13th Passing bays, turning movements, and parking areas
14th Transport as town element, urban transport systems, lighting and location of
engineering networks in the street space

Literature

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. The Highways Agency, Department
for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/

Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2000, ISBN 0-309-06681-6.

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.