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Special Excursion

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Course Unit Code227-0417/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Fourth Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
LIE01Ing. Denisa Cihlářová, Ph.D.
Summary
As a part of this course, the field trips will be organized to the buildings of transport infrastructure, to the traffic-engineering workplaces, and to other places related to transportation. The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with building technologies, working practices, and professional practice.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
To get to know the transport-engineering workplaces and the practice associated with the construction of the transport infrastructure.
To understand the traffic data collection systems and the procedures related to the design and implementation of the traffic buildings.
To compare the methods of transport management and the technology of building the traffic buildings.
Course Contents
1. Directorate of Roads and Highways, workplace Ostrava - Road Databank, National Transport Information Centre
2. Ostrava Communications - Traffic Engineering Office
3. Parking house KOMA Ostrava Svinov
4. Ostrava City - Office of the head architect
5. Technical Administration of Communications, Prague - dispatching center and traffic telematics systems, Na Bojišti 5, Prague
6. Mixing plant Strabag
7. Road Laboratory - TPA
8. EUROVIA Kamenolomy, a.s.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges [on-line]. The Highways Agency, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/
ČSN 73 6101 Projektování silnic a dálnic (v platném znění).
ČSN 73 6102 Projektování křižovatek na pozemních komunikacích (v platném znění).
ČSN 73 6110 Projektování místních komunikací (v platném znění).
Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf
Recommended Reading:
RODRIGUE, Jean-Paul, Theo NOTTEBOOM and Jon SHAW, ed. The SAGE handbook of transport studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84920-789-8.

Promotional publications of the visited workplace.
Elektronická studijní opora http://projekt150.ha-vel.cz/node/29

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges [on-line]. The Highways Agency, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/

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Graded creditGraded credit100 51