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Ground Infrastructure
ÚSI-EDPDCAcad. year: 2018/2019
Priciples of highways and road design - with regard to traffic safety. Movement and trajectory of vehicle, geometry of highway design. Horicontal and vertical alignment, space and width arrangement. Draninage of road surface. Traffic flow and its characteristics in relation to safety. Road pavement construction, technology, wear layer. Road and highway crossings.
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2. Basic terminology, intensity of traffic, documentation of road constructions, administrative authorities.
3. Classes of traffic volume; traffic intensity; route of road communication; designing elements and solutions of directional route leading.
4. Altitudinal arrangement of the road communication; principles of mutual relation between directional and altitudinal route leading
5. Categories of road communication; elements of latitudinal organization of the communication; extra lanes; lanes widening; views in directional arcs; equipment and appliances of road communications; road objects
6. Crossroads, their classification and types; extra lanes at crossroads, principles of capacity calculations and calculations of traffic signal plans; views at crossroads.
7. Technology of road communication construction and road bodies building; road construction and its layers; road materials and their testing, defects of roads and their diagnostics
8. Local communication; traffic structures in cities; public transportation; static traffic, pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
9. Road and city traffic engineering; main tasks and job description; traffic survey and traffic forecast, traffic solutions in regional relations; documentation of zoning and traffic engineering.
10. Theory of traffic flow and its basic characteristics; organization and regulation of traffic, impact of way guidance and equipment of road communications on driver´s psychology.
11. System of road signs; road signs and their location; traffic lights, safety of traffic and accident frequency; effect of traffic on environment.
12. Railway constructions; development of railways; vehicle and its relation to railway; geometrical order of rails, tram traffic, public non-rail transport
13. Design of railways with orientation on tram traffic; rail surface and bottom; sleeper bed; stations.
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MEDELSKÁ, V. a kol.: Dopravné inžinierstvo. ALFA, Bratislava 1991 (ISBN 80-05-00737-X) (CS)
ROJAN, J. a kol.: Městské komunikace. ČVUT 1997. (ISNB 80-01-01060-0) - II.vydání (CS)
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- Programme EID_P Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory