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Road and Urban Transport Technology and Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-3346/01
Abbreviation TaRSaMD
Course title Road and Urban Transport Technology and Management
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

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.

Povinná literatura

CEDER, Avishai. Public transit planning and operation: modeling, practice and behavior. Second edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4665-6391-9 .
TANIGUCHI, Eiichi, ed. City logistics: modelling, planning and evaluation. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. ISBN 978-1-138-06023-4 .
COYLE, John Joseph, Robert A. NOVACK a Brian J. GIBSON. Transportation: a global supply chain perspective. Eighth edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016. ISBN 978-1-133-59296-9 .
SHIFTAN, Yoram a Maria ATTARD, ed. Sustainable urban transport. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2015. Transport and sustainability, volume 7. ISBN 978-1-78441-616-4 .

Doporučená literatura

TANG, Connie Kelly a Lei ZHANG. Principles and practices of transportation planning and engineering: a foundational reference for professionals and textbook for students focusing on civil & transportation engineering, planning, environmental science, and project management. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-70238-0.
TEODOROVIĆ, Dušan a Milan JANIĆ. Transportation engineering: theory, practice, and modeling. Amsterdam: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017. ISBN 978-0-12-803818-5 .
BROWNE, Michael, Sönke BEHRENDS, Johan WOXENIUS, Genevieve GIULIANO a José HOLGUÍN-VERAS, ed. Urban logistics: management, policy and innovation in a rapidly changing environment. London, United Kingdom: Kogan Page Limited, 2019. ISBN 978-0-7494-8777-5 .