Course detail
Highways I
FAST-0M2Acad. year: 2020/2021
Route design and its elements.
Design curves - circle, clothoid and their combinations.
The vertical alignment.
Practical routing.
The history, present and future of roads and transportation. Different means of transport.
Wind and rolling resistance, tyre and carriageway interaction.
Economic, operating and environmental assesment of road.
Traffic safety.
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Course curriculum
2. Origin and evolution of the traffic demand. Traffic flow.
3. Intensity of the traffic flow, highway capacity, highway categories.
4. Highway routing, principles for design and surveying of roads.
5. Horizontal curves, minimal radius, transition curves.
6. Calculation and surveying of clothoidical transition curves.
7. Symmetrical curves.
8. Unsymmetrical curves and combined curves.
9. Vertical alignment, principles, design and calculation.
10. Deisgn of horizontal alignment for the feasibility study.
11. Width configuration and the template cross section.
12. The assessement of design alternatives.
13. Vehicles for road transportation, the interaction between tyre and carriageway.
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Aims
Highway history and development, Traffic flow and road capacity.
Physical conditions of vehicle motion, vehicle characteristics.
Economy, safety, external traffic impact.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Chochol Štefan, Lehovec František, Pošvář Jiří, Rondoš Ľudovít: Cesty a diaľnice I - projektovanie. Alfa Bratislava 1989
Kaun Miroslav, Lehovec František: Pozemní komunikace 20. ČVUT 2000
Recommended reading
Krajčovič Marián a kol.: Dopravní stavby I. Pozemní komunikace. VUT Brno, FAST 1998