Course detail

Specialized Project (K-ZEL)

FAST-BN060Acad. year: 2024/2025

Railway level crossings, sight layout, road pavement structures on level crossings, traffic signs and safety.
Basics of track assessment and inspection procedures, technical state evaluation of railway infrastructure, maintenance management.
Methods and measuring devices on the inspection of quality of track geometry parameters, measuring draisines and track recoding cars.
Introduction to railway control, command and information systems, devices in tracks.
Introduction to energy systems – track overhead catenary systems.
Application of rules for persons of reduced mobility for railway infrastructure design, especially at railway stations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

Entry knowledge

Construction of transport structures – railway superstructure and substructure, track geometry design parameters, basics of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems of structure gauges.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

The objective of the subject is preliminary work on bachelor’s project.
A student acquires a preliminary thesis on bachelor’s project.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

IŽVOLT, Libor. Železničný spodok: namáhanie, diagnostika, navrhovanie a realizácia konštrukčných vrstiev telesa železničného spodku. V Žiline: Žilinská univerzita, 2008. ISBN 978-808-0708-023. (SK)
IŽVOLT, Libor, Janka ŠESTÁKOVÁ a Michal ŠMALO. Železničné staviteľstvo 2: Diagnostika, mechanizácia prác a technologické postupy údržby železničnej jazdnej dráhy. Žilina: EDIS, 2015. ISBN 978-80-554-1169-9. (SK)
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. (CS)

Recommended reading

BONNETT, Clifford F. Practical railway engineering. 2nd ed. London: Imperial College Press, c2005. ISBN 1-86094-515-5. (EN)

Type of course unit

 

Project

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Railway level crossings, sight layout. 2. Road pavement structures on level crossings, traffic signs and safety. 3. Basics of track assessment and inspection procedures, technical state evaluation of railway infrastructure, 4. Management of railway infrastructure maintenance. 5. Methods and measuring devices on the inspection of quality of track geometry parameters. 6. Measuring draisines and track recoding cars. 7. Introduction to railway control, command and information systems, devices in tracks. 8. Control command and signalling – devices in track. 9. Introduction to energy systems – track overhead catenary systems. 10. Application of rules for persons of reduced mobility for railway infrastructure design. 11. Structures used by passengers in railway stations and stops.