Designing of Railway Stations and Railway Centers

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	227-0457/02
Abbreviation	PSU
Course title	Designing of Railway Stations and Railway Centers
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Basic concepts, legislation, principles of designing railway. stations (operational documents, surveys, PD, general principles of design)
- Track (division, numbering used. Length, layout, transitions between different axial distances of tracks)
- Personal-station lay-station, the sorting station (purpose, classification, arrangement track, equipment ...)
- The Hills-sorting station (location, shape, design, rail gridiron various groups-the main principles, technical and construction equipment humps, Automation COMPASS)
- Track-industrial plants (purpose, location, types, classification, arrangement rails, equipment, ..)
- Railway-building equipment (platforms, subways, footbridge, footbridges, the platform shelters, station building, warehouses, landfills ...)
- Construction Equipment locomotive and rolling farm
- Railway-station in the special conditions - effects of mining activities (mine area, subsidence trough and its impact on the rail) and building at the railway station floodplains

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VŠB-TUO): 2270457 Designing of Railway Stations and Railway Centers

Literature

- TZANAKAKIS, Konstantinos. The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality. Berlin: Springer, c2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36050-3.
- Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), 2003.

Advised literature

- ESVELD, Coenraad. Modern railway track. 2nd ed. Zaltbommel: MRT Productions, c2001. ISBN 90-800324-3-3.
- EN 15273-1 Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock.
- EN 13848-6 Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality.
- EN ISO 3095 Railway applications – Acoustics – Measurement of noise emitted by railbound vehicles.
- EN 16272-3 Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 3-2: Normalized railway noise spectrum and single number ratings for direct field applications.
- EN 16272-6 Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 6: Intrinsic characteristics — In situ values of airborne sound insulation under direct sound field conditions.

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