Design of Highways and Motorways

Design of Highways and Motorways
227-0453/01
čeština Design of Highways and Motorways
227-0453/02
angličtina

Summary

Lectures and practices of object are centred on choice questions of highway and motorway designing. Attention is aimed namely on solution of flyover junctions on highway and motorway net, on capacity evaluation, and to ensure road safety. Students make the acquaintance of registering method of highway and motorway net by the help of GIS applications, with using of orientation road signaling and traffic telematic. It is presented software which is used at road designing, that is currently on the institute.

Literature

- Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf
- HCM2010: highway capacity manual. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2010. .

Advised literature

- WALSH, Ian D., ed. ICE manual of highway design and management. London: ICE, 2011. .
- 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/

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Language of instruction	čeština, angličtina
Code	227-0453
Abbreviation	PSD
Course title	Design of Highways and Motorways
Coordinating department	Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.