Course detail

City Transportation

FAST-MM53Acad. year: 2016/2017

The subject is dealing with detailed analysis of the entire problems related to urban roads, in particular prioritised communication network and designed features of urban roads. Special attention is paid to analysing project documentation of individual categories of urban roads. Certain part is devoted to problems related to public transport system, road maintenance and administrative system. There is to be elaborated one-term project covering both network creating concept and the design activities themselves applied to urban environment. There is a scheduled visit of city offices dealing with urban roads, i.e. office of the Head Architect and Brnenske komunikace. Attention is paid to road safety elements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Martin Smělý, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Road Structures (PKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of traffic engineering, roads and motorway design and urban roads, PC user competence (ACAD, ...)

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1: The history of the first transport, distribution transport modes, their importance in society, the pros and cons of transport, urban mobility
2: Characteristics of road and motorway network in the country. Transport terminology, basic concepts
3: Third road design, road lines, vertical alignment, cross-organization
4: Foundations for designing communications extravilánových
5. Principles for designing of the urban roads
6. October 28, 2014 - National Holiday - lecture falls
7. Fundamentals of Transport Engineering
8. Transportation and land use plan
9. Cross section of roadway structures - structure, function of structural layers
10. Materials and requirements for soil and material used for road
11. Materials and requirements for wearing a bed layers
12. Pavement design - input and output parameters

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Detailed analysis of the entire problems related to urban roads, public transport, urban roads maintenance, urban transport network planning.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Surovec Pavel: Tvorba systému mestskej hromadnej dopravy. Žilinská univerzita, 1999. 80-7100-586-X. (SK)

Recommended reading

Pavlíček Jan: Městské komunikace. VUT v Brně, 1998.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-MI Bachelor's

    branch MI , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Martin Smělý, Ph.D.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Martin Smělý, Ph.D.