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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Design I - Roads

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0056/01
Abbreviation P
Course title Design I - Roads
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Mahdalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The project aims to apply the theoretical and practical knowledge gained previous years of study at a comprehensive solution of a given construction project of field of traffic engineering. according to individual specifications. Students in this course project I continue to work on a simplified project documentation entered in the summer semester in the subject road. Teaching of exercises takes place on a computer classroom with the use of specialized software.

Syllabus Project:
• Project assignment, route selection of the map base
• Design horizontal alignment road
• Design height keeping road
• Width road layout, a cross-section
• Typical cross sections
• Calculation of quantities
• The design of culvert pipe
• Assembly drawing of the longitudinal profile
• Assembly drawing of the situation
• Completion of year project

Literature

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

Design Manual M 22-01.06, (WSDOT) Washington State Department of Transportation, December 2009.

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), The Highways Agency, The Scottish Office Development Department, The Welsh Office Y SWYDDFA GYMREIG, The Department of Environment for Northern Ireland, February 2008.

Highway Design Manual, California Transport Department.

Advised literature

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

Design Manual M 22-01.06, (WSDOT) Washington State Department of Transportation, December 2009.

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), The Highways Agency, The Scottish Office Development Department, The Welsh Office Y SWYDDFA GYMREIG, The Department of Environment for Northern Ireland, February 2008.

Highway Design Manual, California Transport Department.