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Urban Roads and Intersections

Summary

Students acquaint with designing of traffic structures in terms of towns and communities, with street space form and with creation of conditions for coexistence of track, motor, biking and pedestrian traffic. Teaching is aimed on solution of dynamic and static traffic in towns. Part of object is problems of cross-roads designing with emphasis on solution of junctions controlled by traffic light.

Literature

HCM2010: highway capacity manual. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2010. ISBN 978-0-309-16077-3 .

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

Advised literature

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf

MEYER, M. and E. Miller. Urban Transportation Planning. McGraw-Hill, 2000.


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 227-0407
Abbreviation MKK
Course title Urban Roads and Intersections
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator Ing. Denisa Cihlářová, Ph.D.