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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Urban Mass Passenger Transport

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0314/01
Abbreviation MHD
Course title Urban Mass Passenger Transport
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The program of lectures
1. Introduction, basic concepts, characteristics of public transport.
2. Access by public transport.
3. Public transport infrastructure.
4. Transport characteristics of public transport.
5. The orbital period and velocity of transportation.
6. Transport characteristics of public transport.
7. Performance of public transport.
8. Performance indicators over time and use public transportation vehicles.
9. Dispatcher PT management. Diagram of transport. Timetable.
10.Quality of public transport.
11.Methods assessing the quality of public transport.
12.Public transport network and its characteristics.
13.Costs and sales of public transport. Public transport tariff systems.
14.Choice of vehicle. Business and Economics point of view choice of vehicle.

Exercise Program
1. Seminar on public transport. Discussion.
2. Technical and operational characteristics of public transport vehicles.
3. Types of stops, keeping lines of public transport.
4. Calculations of transport and transport inequality, the coefficient for the passengers.
5. Calculations of orbital period, orbital velocity and its components.
6. Calculations of the capacity, number of vehicles on the route, traffic interval.
7. Calculations of transport services. Calculations of transport operations.
8. Control Test 1. Calculations of the number of passengers carried by public transport.
9. Examples of the calculation of performance indicators over time and use public transportation vehicles.
10. Evaluation criteria for the quality of public transport movement.
11. Example Applying the multicriteria evaluation of the quality of public transport.
12. Calculations of transport characteristics of the public transport network.
13. Calculating the cost of the line from the specified values ​​of direct and indirect costs.
14. Control Test 2. Select a vehicle.

Literature

VUCHIC, V.R.: Urban Transit, operations, planning and economics. John Willey&Sons, Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-471-63265-1

Advised literature

GIFFORD, J.: Flexible Urban Transportation, ISBN: 0-08-044053-3 .
Kenneth Button: Recent Developments in Transport Economics., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.