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Traffic Structures II

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 227-0419/02
Abbreviation DS2
Course title Traffic Structures II
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladislav Křivda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Junction of roads.
2. Parking and parking areas, garages.
3. Non-motorized and mixed-traffic roads.
4. Principles of calming traffic on local roads.
5. Introduction to the subject. Tracks and equipment, basic structural elements of railway track.
6. Switches and turnout structures.
7. Safety of railway transport, external safety equipment and construction solutions.
8. Railway crossing, crossing with drain hole etc.
9. Railway infrastructure for urban transport. Railway yard industrial plants.
10. Substructure (railway construction. Substructure, drainage ...).
11. Railway station (types, purpose, equipment). Rail infrastructure and personal storage stations.
12. Infrastructure sorting station, the main sorting station Hills, engineering and construction equipment humps, automation
13. Constructions of railway equipment. Railway nodes (history, purpose, location, equipment).
14. Railway system in EU, increasing speed on railway lines, railway modernization in Czech Republic.

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VSB-TUO): 227-0419 Traffic Structures II

Literature

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

Advised literature

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/