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Railway Infrastructure and Safety Device

Summary

Students will learn the fundamentals of geometric, structural and area arrangement of tracks, identifying and categorizing defects in structural elements of railway track repair organizations, superstructure a substructure, and equipment to railway stations, buildings, railway equipment (platforms, subways, footbridge, the platform shelters, dispatch buildings, warehouses, landfills), modernization of the railway network in the CR. Further instruction is focused on the types railway systems a safety equipment and not least the knowledge of the diagnosis by reducing the impact of railways and railway transport on the environment.
Completing the course students acquire knowledge about the purpose and layout construction elements of railway infrastructure, including the principles of railway lines crossing the roads, water courses and engineering buildings. Students acquire basic knowledge of the purpose and construction equipment, train stations, railway stations and railway junctions, acquire knowledge about the purpose and design of various types of signaling system and systems device of railways.
Students will acquire knowledge of diagnostic technologies a the implementation of corrective operations on the railway superstructure and substructure, acquire basic knowledge of related legal, technical and technological standards, learn with the application of special mechanization of for the railway

Literature

C.Esvelt : Modern Railway Track, MRT Productions 2001
Tzanakakis K.: The Raiway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag 2013
John Sreeves: Reconstruction of the Welsh Highland Railway, Snowdonia, Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering, Volume 161, Issue 4, 01 November 2008 , pages 169 –176

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


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 227-0303
Abbreviation ŽIZ
Course title Railway Infrastructure and Safety Device
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D.