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Designing of Railway Stations and Railway Centers

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Course Unit Code227-0457/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First 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
PET368doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.
SOB0011Ing. Michal Šobr
Summary
Introduction to basic terms and legislation with the principles of designing railway. stations, construction elements such as superstructure, bottom rail, sleeper and ground stations in výhybnách, drainage ž. stations, turnouts and switches links, security system in railways stations. Furthermore, with the purpose of dividing and holding yard and passenger station facilities, lay station, sorting station, the main shunting gradient of sorting station, automation shunting gradient KOMPAS. The course also deals with the solution yards industrial plants (purpose, location, types, division, track system layout, equipment, construction of railway device (platforms, subways, footbridge, footbridges, shelters the platform, the station building, areas front of the station, warehouses, landfills), construction equipment for the locomotive and rolling stock holding design and implementation of railway. stations in the special conditions (effects of mining activities in the flood areas).
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Students will learn the fundamentals of designing railway stations, railway staging and major rail hubs, with structural elements of the superstructure and substructure in railway stations, including drainage structures and safety devices. Out the project the student will formulate skill problems, build design solutions, applying knowledge and skills in solving the problems of construction of rail transport.
Course Contents
- Basic concepts, legislation, principles of designing railway. stations (operational documents, surveys, PD, general principles of design)
- Track (division, numbering used. Length, layout, transitions between different axial distances of tracks)
- Personal-station lay-station, the sorting station (purpose, classification, arrangement track, equipment ...)
- The Hills-sorting station (location, shape, design, rail gridiron various groups-the main principles, technical and construction equipment humps, Automation COMPASS)
- Track-industrial plants (purpose, location, types, classification, arrangement rails, equipment, ..)
- Railway-building equipment (platforms, subways, footbridge, footbridges, the platform shelters, station building, warehouses, landfills ...)
- Construction Equipment locomotive and rolling farm
- Railway-station in the special conditions - effects of mining activities (mine area, subsidence trough and its impact on the rail) and building at the railway station floodplains
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
- TZANAKAKIS, Konstantinos. The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality. Berlin: Springer, c2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36050-3.
- Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), 2003.
- HUDEČEK, Leopold, Eva OŽANOVÁ a Otto ROHÁČ. Železniční stavby. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-729-1.
- KREJČIŘÍKOVÁ, Hana a Martin LIDMILA. Železniční stavby 1. V Praze: České vysoké učení technické, 2011. ISBN 978-80-01-04693-7.
- PLÁŠEK, Otto, Pavel ZVĚŘINA, Richard SVOBODA a Milan MOCKOVČIAK. Železniční stavby: železniční spodek a svršek. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2621-7.
- PLÁŠEK, Otto. Železniční stavby: návody do cvičení. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2003. ISBN 80-7204-267-x.
- KREJČIŘÍKOVÁ, Hana. Železniční stavby 10: (návody pro cvičení). Praha: České vysoké učení technické, 2000. ISBN 80-01-02210-2.
- TZANAKAKIS, Konstantinos. The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality. Berlin: Springer, c2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36050-3.
Recommended Reading:
- ESVELD, Coenraad. Modern railway track. 2nd ed. Zaltbommel: MRT Productions, c2001. ISBN 90-800324-3-3.
- EN 15273-1 Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock.
- EN 13848-6 Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality.
- EN ISO 3095 Railway applications – Acoustics – Measurement of noise emitted by railbound vehicles.
- EN 16272-3 Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 3-2: Normalized railway noise spectrum and single number ratings for direct field applications.
- EN 16272-6 Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 6: Intrinsic characteristics — In situ values of airborne sound insulation under direct sound field conditions.
- ČSN EN 15273-1 Železniční aplikace - Průjezdné průřezy tratí a obrysy vozidel - Část 1: Obecně - Společné zásady pro infrastrukturu a vozidla (v platném znění).
- ČSN EN 13848-6 Železniční aplikace - Kolej - Kvalita geometrie koleje - Část 6: Stanovení kvality geometrie koleje (v platném znění).
- ČSN 736360-1 Konstrukční a geometrické uspořádání koleje železničních drah (v platném znění).
- ČSN EN 13848-1+A1 Železniční aplikace - Kolej - Kvalita geometrie koleje – Část 1: Popis geometrie koleje (v platném znění).
- ČSN EN 13848-5 Železniční aplikace - Kolej - Kvalita geometrie koleje – Část 5: Hladiny geometrie koleje (v platném znění).
- Studijní materiály na www.fs.vsb.cz/euprojekty/150/?ucebni-opory
- ESVELD, Coenraad. Modern railway track. 2nd ed. Zaltbommel: MRT Productions, c2001. ISBN 90-800324-3-3.
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