227-0453 – Design of Highways and Motorways (PSD)

Gurantor department	Department of Transport Constructions
Subject guarantor	doc. Ing. Jan Petrů, Ph.D.
Study level	undergraduate or graduate

Subject version
Version code	Year of introduction	Year of cancellation	Credits
227-0453/01	2019/2020		5
227-0453/02	2019/2020		5

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
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, on capacity evaluation, and to ensure road safety. 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:

- Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation [on-line], USA, 2017, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M22-01/design.pdf - HCM2010: highway capacity manual. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2010. ISBN 978-0-309-16077-3.

Recommended literature:

- WALSH, Ian D., ed. ICE manual of highway design and management. London: ICE, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7277-4111-0. - 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.