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Transport and Environment

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0414/03
Abbreviation DŽP
Course title Transport and Environment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Role of transport in the Czech Republic and in Europe. Types of transport, their tasks and cooperation. Types of transport and their energy efficiency, economic point of view in transport.
2. Road transport (development of transport net in the Czech Republic, development of road net in the Czech Republic).
3. Construction of road net (types of roadways, drainage of roads and motorways, roadsides, additional lanes, bridges, tunnels, ecoducts). Car parks, stops and breakdown areas.
4. Railway transport (development of railway net, beginnings of railway operation on territory of the Czech Republic).

E-learning

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Literature

PATZEK, T. W. The Real Biofuel Cycle. Berkeley: University of California, 2006. 48 p.
DORA, C. and M. PHILLIPS (eds.). Transport, environment and health (WHO Regional Publication, European series, Nr. 89). Copenhagen: WHO, 2000, 81 p.
LAPČÍK, V. Environmental Impact Assessment of Railway Lines. Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series B, 2003, Nr. 9, pp. 173-192. ISBN 80-7194-605-2, ISSN 1211-6610 .
Environmental Technologies and Eco-innovation in the Czech Republic. Praha: CENIA, 2009. 115 p. ISBN 978-80-85087-69-7 .

Doporučená literatura

ADAMEC, V., P. DVOŘÁKOVÁ, J. JEDLIČKA et al. Dangerous Matter and the Traffic Wastes. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Conference Safety Engineering. Ostrava: VŠB-TUO, 2006, pp. 1-11. ISBN 80-248-1185-5, ISSN 1801-1764 .
TIITA, P., T. RAUNEMAA, J. TISSARI et al. Measurement and modelling of PM2,5 concentrations near major road in Kuopio, Finland. Atmospheric Environment, 2002, Vol. 36, No. 25, pp. 4057-4068. ISSN 1352-2310 .
BERGLUND, B., T. LINDVALL, H. D. SCHWELA. Guidelines for Community Noise. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1999. 161 p.
FARAGO, M. E., R. KANAVAGH, R. BLANKS. Platinum metal concentrations in urban road dust and soil in the United Kingdom. Fresenius´Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 1996, Vol. 354, pp. 660-663. ISSN 0937-0633 .