227-0407 – Urban Roads and Intersections (MKK)

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
227-0407/01	2019/2020		5
227-0407/02	2019/2020		5

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Define the design parameters and elements of urban roads and intersections. Describe possibilities of drainage. Know the ways for traffic calming. Define basic parameters of parking lots and garages. Analyze the input data for the design of intersections and accident rate. Describe ways to control traffic at intersections. Apply knowledge when designing intersections. Prepare light traffic control design. Design pedestrian and cyclist routes, including pedestrian and cyclist crossings.

Teaching methods

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Summary

Students acquaint with designing of traffic structures in terms of towns and communities, with street space form and with creation of conditions for coexistence of track, motor, biking and pedestrian traffic. Teaching is aimed on solution of dynamic and static traffic in towns. Part of object is problems of cross-roads designing with emphasis on solution of junctions controlled by traffic light.

Compulsory literature:

HCM2010: highway capacity manual. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2010. ISBN 978-0-309-16077-3. 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/

Recommended literature:

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf MEYER, M. and E. Miller. Urban Transportation Planning. McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.