227-0102 – Design of Highways and Motorways (PSD)
| Gurantor department | Department of Transport Constructions |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Ivana Mahdalová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Analyze enter data for highway or motorway design.
Propose optimal highway or motorway parameters.
Design interchanges of highways and motorways.
Design traffic signalling and elements of telematic systems.
Assess quality traffic level on highways and motorways.
Assess design elements of highways and motorways from safeness viewpoint.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
Lectures and practices of object are centred on choice questions of highway and motorway designing.
Attention is aimed namely on solution of flyover junctions on highway and motorway net and on capacity evaluation.
Students make the acquaintance of registering method of highway and motorway net by the help of GIS applications, with using of orientation road signaling and traffic telematic.
It is presented software which is used at road designing, that is currently on the institute.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/m22-01.htm
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.