Course detail
Highways I
FAST-BM01Acad. year: 2009/2010
Introduction to the road transportation. History, evolution and future of roads and road transportation. Basic design work, design documentation on the level of study. Highway routing, design elements of route. Choice of technical category, design elements for horizontal and vertical alignment, width configuration of a road in a cross section. Derivation of the minimal design parameters. Transitive curves, clothoid and its computation. Computation of curves. Computation of vertical alignment. Optimization of route, relation of horizontal and vertical alignment, aesthetics of road. Vehicles, motion resistance, dynamic factor, interaction of wheel and road surface. Assessment and evaluation of route design, alternatives, environmental assessment.
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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. Design of horizontal alignment for the feasibility study.
11. Width configuration and the template cross section.
12. The assessment of design alternatives.
13. Vehicles for road transportation, the interaction between tyre and carriageway.
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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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Basic literature
Krajčovič Marián a kol.: Dopravní stavby I.. VUT Brno, FAST, 1998.
Krajčovič Marián, Jůza Petr, Holcner Petr, Řezáč Miloslav: Silnice a dálnice I - Návody na vypracování cvičení. VUT v Brně, 2001.
Petr Holcner: BM01 Pozemní komunikace I. modul 01. FAST VUT v Brně, 2005.
Petr Holcner: BM01 Pozemní komunikace I. modul 02. FAST VUT v Brně, 2005.
Roger Brockenbrough: Highway Engineering Handbook 2ND Edition. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 007140080x, 2003.
Transportation Research Board: Highway Capacity Manual 2000; Metric Version. Transportation Research Board; ISBN 0-309-06681-6, 2000.
Recommended reading
Chochol Štefan, Lehovec František, Pošvář Jiří, Rondoš Ľudovít: Cesty a diaľnice I - projektovanie. Alfa Bratislava, 1989.
Krajčovič Marián, Jůza Petr: Dopravní stavby I. - návody na cvičení. VUTIUM, 1998.
Robert Genat: Road Construction. Motorbooks International, 1995.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory