Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Design of Highways and Motorways

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	227-0102/01
Abbreviation	PSD
Course title	Design of Highways and Motorways
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Ivana Mahdalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1st Quality of traffic on roads and highways, determine congestion
2nd Level of quality of service (ÚKD) on two-lane road and the roads and highways vícepruhových
3rd Grade-separated interchanges (GSI), the choice and arrangement of the type of flyover, at the crossroads ÚKD
4th Designing intersections on roads and highways, lanes in intersections
5th The objects and branches GSI
6th Lateral branches of the organization and capacity of GSI, the branches ÚKD junctions
7th The spacing of intersections, průplet, ÚKD and sizing
průpletových sections collector belt
8th Roundabouts on the roads, design principles, software TORUS using
9th Approximate road signs (CGI) on the road
10th Variable traffic signs (PDZ) and for traffic information (ZPI)
11th Equipment for traffic telematics
12th GIS applications for registration and management of road and highway networks, design documents obtained from the GIS "Databank of property managers'
13th Measures for safe transport infrastructure, road safety audits
14th Excursion to the database and the Road to the National Traffic Information Centre

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

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