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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Transportation Engineering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0951/02
Abbreviation DS
Course title Transportation Engineering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Mahdalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
1st Development of transport and transport networks. Modes, comparison.
2nd Roads - Design elements, legislation tracking.
3rd Cross-roads. Design category. Communications capacity.
4th Intersections and exits on the road. Turnabout, passing bays, and parking areas.
5th The structural design of roads - aggregates, binders, soil water regime, the class of congestion, roadway.
6th Natural body, earthwork, drainage, road construction objects.
7th Historical development of the railways. Legislation. Trace, principles of design of railway tracks, VRT ...
8th The vehicle and track, basic dynamics, train resistances vehicles. Alignment design of the track, the spatial arrangement of the track.
9th Railway infrastructure (construction of tracks, reports žel.svršku, switches and crossings).
10th Substructure. Crossing railroad tracks with roads, streams and power lines, unfortunately. crossings ...
11th Railway stations and trains. Tracks of industrial plants. Construction of railway facilities (platforms, underpasses, footbridge, footbridges, shelters the platform, station building, area in front of, stores, dumps ...).
12th Safety devices. The negative effects of traffic and the possibility of their elimination.
13th Rail transport in cities. Buildings for public transport - bus stops, transfer stations, bus stations.

Literature

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. The Highways Agency, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/

Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2000, ISBN 0-309-06681-6.

Advised literature

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/m22-01.htm