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Designing of Railway Stations and Railway Centers

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Course Unit Code227-0106/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
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
Lecture:
- 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

Exercise:
Introduction to project documentation, operational documentation for designing railway station, calculate the direction and altitude railway station elements, the calculation of detailed points. The structural design gridiron, superstructure and layout at railway stations (Platforms, ramps, dumps, the loading, Targeted communication buffer, fence, railing). Suggestions elements of passenger, freight station (calculation Hills ...).
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
- Ross, Julian: Railway stations: planning, design and management, Oxford : Architectural Press, 2000, ISBN: 0750643765
- Coenraad Esveld: Modern Raiway Track, 2001 Dior Zwarthoed-van Nieuwenhuize

Technical Standards:
EN 15273-1:2013 - Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock
EN 13848-6:2013 - Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality
EN ISO 3095:2013 - Railway applications – Acoustics – Measurement of noise emitted by railbound vehicles
EN 16272-3-2:2012 - 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 16272-6:2014 - 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
- Plášek,Zvěřina,Svoboda,Mockovčiak: Železniční stavby-železniční spodek a svršek, CERM, 2004
- Plášek: Železniční stavby, Návody do cvičení, VUT-Brno, 1998
- Krejčiříková, Novák, Špačková: Železniční stanice a uzly: Návody ke cvičení, ČVUT, 1991
- Zvěřina P.: Železniční stanice a uzly: Návody ke cvičení, Ediční středisko Vysokého učení technického, Brno, 1990

Technické normy a legislativa:
Zákon č. 266/1994 (O drahách), vyhl. č. 177/1995 vč.změn a doplňků
ČSN 73 6360-1 Konstrukční a geometrické uspořádání koleje železničních drah
ČSN 73 6380 Železniční přejezdy a přechody
ČSN 73 6320 Průjezdné průřezy na drahách celostátních, drahách regionálních a
vlečkách normálního rozchodu
Předpis SŽDC-S3 železniční svršek, SŽDC-S4 Železniční spodek, vzorové listy SŽDC,
TNŽ736949 Odvodnění železničních tratí a stanic.
TNŽ013468 Výkresy železničních tratí a stanic
Recommended Reading:
- John Sreeves: Reconstruction of the Welsh Highland Railway, Snowdonia, Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering, Volume 161, Issue 4, 01 November 2008 , pages 169 –176
- Grimes, C.A. : Application of genetic techniques to the planning of railway track maintenance work, Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications, 1995. GALESIA. First International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 414)
- Tzanakakis K.: The Raiway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag 2013
- Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)
- Ižvolt a kol.: Projektovanie, stavba a rekonštrukcia železničných tratí, VŠDS Žilina 1992
- Klimeš, Ferdinand: Železniční stavitelství 2. díl. Stanice a uzly ; 2. přeprac. vyd., Praha: SNTL, 1981
- Ross, Julian: Railway stations: planning, design and management, Oxford : Architectural Press, 2000, ISBN: 0750643765

EL. STUDIJNÍ OPORY:
- Hudeček, Ožanová, Roháč: Železniční stavby. Dostupné na: http://projekt150.ha-vel.cz/node/80,
- Hudeček a kol.: Kapitola II. Železniční stanice a kolejová doprava ve městech. Dostupné na: http://projekt150.ha-vel.cz/node/84
- http://www.stavebniinzenyrstvi.cz/studijni-obory/studium-navazujici-magisterske/dopravni-stavby/
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit35 18
        ExaminationExamination65 16