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Technology and management of railway transport

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-3347/02
Abbreviation TaRZD
Course title Technology and management of railway transport
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Dušan Teichmann, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Land transport technologies (significance, general principles of their development, factors influencing their development).
2. General structure of technology (operations, activities, specific actions, sequencing, use of network analysis methods for managing the technological process).
3. Fundamentals of railway signaling and interlocking technology.
4. Planning of activities within railway traffic operations.
5. Local technological processes (train routes and their setting, shunting operations at stations with track layouts and on the line).
6. Local technological processes (line-specific technologies, technologies applied in marshalling yards).
7. Network-wide technological processes (passenger train formation, freight train formation).
8. Train timetable (introduction, data for timetable construction).
9. Train timetable (station operating intervals).
10. Train timetable (line operating intervals).
11. Train timetable (succession and arrival intervals).
12. Construction of the train timetable chart (graphic timetable).
13. Reserved for a current topic in the field of railway transport.

E-learning

lms.vsb.cz

Literature

PACHL, J.: Railway Timetabling and Operations. Braunschweig: Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2024. ISBN nemá.

Advised literature

YI, S.: Principles and Railway Location and Design. Academic Přes, 2017. ISBN 978-01-2813-487-0 .