Planning of Traffic and Area Servicing

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	227-0460/02
Abbreviation	PDOÚ
Course title	Planning of Traffic and Area Servicing
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Approaches to transport planning and transport networks,
2. Addressing transport services in regions, municipalities, cities and boroughs
3. The human factor in traffic
4. Quantitative methods of engineering
5. Transport geography, sociology transport
6. Socio-geographical regionalization
7. Optimization of network traffic
8. Investment - introduction, basic concepts and terminology
9. Capital investment, phases of construction preparation.
10. Construction Law, Administrative Code and other related legislation
11. Building offices and legislative processes, public authorities
12. Tendering and award of contracts, Pre-construction preparation, surveys, documents.
13. Project preparation structures, procedures, engineering Services in the preparation of the building, implementation of construction and related activities, safety, protective zones

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VŠB-TUO): 2270460 Planning of Traffic and Area Servicing

Literature

- Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, September 2022. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/m22-01.htm
- Highway Capacity Manual. A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis. 7th Edition. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board, 2022.
- Design Guidance for Intersection Auxiliary Lanes. Washington: Transport Research Board, 2014, 159 p.
- Beeston L., Blewitt R., Bulmer S., Wilson J. Traffic Modelling Guidelines (Version 4.0). London: Transport for London, 2021, 585 p.
- O'FLAHERTY, C.A. Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering. Publisher's Note: Transferred to Taylor & Francis, 2012. .
- MANNERING, Fred L. and Scott S. WASHBURN: Principles of highway engineering and traffic analysis, Publisher: Wiley, 2009. .

Advised literature

- Li S. Modelling and management of multi-modal urban traffic. London: University College London, 2016, 198 p.
- Traffic and Transportation Simulation. Washington: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2015, 156 p.
- HOYLE, B. S a Richard D. KNOWLES, ed. Modern transport geography. 2nd, rev. ed. Chichester: Wiley, c1998. ISBN 0-471-97777-2.
- RODRIGUE, Jean-Paul, Claude COMTOIS and Brian SLACK. The Geography of Transport Systems. New York: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 978-0415354417.

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