227-0417 – Special Excursion (OEx)

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
227-0417/01	2019/2020		5
227-0417/02	2019/2020		5

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

To get to know the transport-engineering workplaces and the practice associated with the construction of the transport infrastructure. To understand the traffic data collection systems and the procedures related to the design and implementation of the traffic buildings. To compare the methods of transport management and the technology of building the traffic buildings.

Teaching methods

Other activities

Summary

As a part of this course, the field trips will be organized to the buildings of transport infrastructure, to the traffic-engineering workplaces, and to other places related to transportation. The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with building technologies, working practices, and professional practice.

Compulsory literature:

Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf 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:

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. Promotional publications of the visited workplace.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.