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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Operation and Economics of Road Transportation I

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0527/01
Abbreviation PSDI
Course title Operation and Economics of Road Transportation I
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Technology, organization, control and economy of road and urban passenger transport. Characteristic signs of passenger transport, technological elements of regular mass passenger transport. Outputs and quality of transport. Creation of mass passenger transport system, modal split and modal choice between urban mass passenger transport and individual car transport. Dispatching control and transport coordination. Operational and economical characteristics of mass transport vehicles. National transport policy in passenger transport. Timetable creation. Project of transport technology in one line

Literature

VUCHIC, V.R.: Urban Transit, operations, planning and economics. John Willey&Sons, Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-471-63265-1
MAY, A.D.; KELLY, C.E.; SHEPHERD, S.P.: The principles of integration in urban transport strategies Transport Policy , 2006 (Elsevier Science Ltd., Pergamon )

Advised literature

TIGHT, M.R.; MAY, A.D.: Innovation and Integration in Urban Transport Policy
Transport Policy , 2006, (Elsevier Science Ltd., Pergamon).