Operation of Road and Urban Transportation

Operation of Road and Urban Transportation
342-0621/01
čeština

Summary

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. Timetable creation. Urban passenger transport net design. The model of transport service in a region, creation of urban passenger transport net. Freight road transport technology, vehicle turnover, loading, unloading. Output in freight road transport and in forwarding. Time and output utilization of freight road transport vehicles.
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).
MAY, A.D.; KELLY, C.E.; SHEPHERD, S.P.: The principles of integration in urban
transport strategies Transport Policy , 2006 (Elsevier Science Ltd., Pergamon )

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Language of instruction	čeština
Code	342-0621
Abbreviation	PSaMD
Course title	Operation of Road and Urban Transportation
Coordinating department	Institute of Transport
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.