Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Railway Infrastructure

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	227-0060/01
Abbreviation	ŽI
Course title	Railway Infrastructure
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator	Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Introduction to the subject (history, rolling stock, traction ..)
- Tracks and equipment, basic structural elements of railway track
- Switches and turnout structures
- Safety equipment and construction solutions
- Railway infrastructure for urban transport
- Railway yard industrial plants (purpose, location, amenities, ..)
- Substructure (railway construction. Substructure, drainage ...)
- Railway station (purpose, distribution, equipment)
- Rail infrastructure and personal storage stations
- Infrastructure sorting station, the main sorting station Hills, engineering and construction equipment humps, automation
- Objects of railway equipment (platforms, underpasses, overpasses, bridges, station buildings, the, warehouse, dump ...)
- Railway nodes (history, purpose, location, equipment)
- Safety in rail transport
- Rail network, increasing speed on railway lines, railway modernization in Czech Republic

Literature

Esveld C.: Modern Railway Track, MRT Productions 2001
Tzanakakis K.: The Raiway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag 2013
Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)

Advised literature

EN 15273-1:2013 - Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock
EN 13848-6:2013 - Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality

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