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Traffic Structures I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 227-0501/02
Abbreviation DS1
Course title Traffic Structures I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Origin and development of infrastructure. Automotive development, development of road and motorway networks.
2. Sorting of roads, design parameters, categories of roads.
3. Directional design elements of the road.
4. Vehicle stability and view in directional arcs.
5. Height design elements roads. View ensure in elevation arcs.
6. Route design, control line.
7. The cross arrangement of roads. Passage profile. Extension of lanes in the directional arc, tilting of the road, resulting slope.
8. Design and construction of the ground body of roads, modification of slopes.
9. Types and construction of road pavements, design principles, subsoil treatment.
10. Drainage of roads, culverts.
11. A security devices and other equipment of roads.
12. Spatial solution of the route, objects in the route. Multi-criteria evaluation of variants.
13. Leve intersections.

E-learning

MS Moodle (VSB-TUO): 227-0501 Traffic Structures I

Literature

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, September 2022.
Highway Capacity Manual. A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis. 7th Edition. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board, 2022. ISBN 978-0-309-08766-7 

Advised literature

Walsh Ian D., ed. ICE manual of highway design and management. London: ICE, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7277-4111-0.
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul, Notteboom Theo, Shaw Jon, ed. The SAGE handbook of transport studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84920-789-8.
Kutz Myer, ed. Handbook of transportation engineering. Volume I, Systems and operations. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2011. ISBN 978-0-07-161492-4.
Kutz Myer, ed. Handbook of transportation engineering. Volume II, Applications and technologies. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2011. ISBN 978-0-07-161477-1.