227-0405 – Highway Engineering (SiSt)

Gurantor department	Department of Transport Constructions
Subject guarantor	Ing. Denisa Cihlářová, Ph.D.
Study level	undergraduate or graduate

Subject version
Version code	Year of introduction	Year of cancellation	Credits
227-0405/01	2019/2020		4
227-0405/02	2019/2020		4

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The aim is to gain knowledge of designing and building roads. Attention will be focused especially on the design of the road route according to the required parameters and ways of designing the road pavements, including the technological procedures and the realization.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials

Summary

Lectures and seminars are focused on fundamental questions of road designing, with emphasis on the design and construction of roads and pavement design, including material properties and building technology. Exercises are taught in a computer room using specialized software.

Compulsory literature:

- WALSH, Ian D., ed. ICE manual of highway design and management. London: ICE, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7277-4111-0. - RODRIGUE, Jean-Paul, Theo NOTTEBOOM and Jon SHAW, ed. The SAGE handbook of transport studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84920-789-8. - Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf

Recommended literature:

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges [on-line]. The Highways Agency, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, http://www.dft.gov.uk/ha/standards/dmrb/

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.