227-0053 – Urban Roads and Intersections (MKK)
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
Describe kinds and types of intersections.
Define design elements of intersections.
Describe possibilities of intersections drain.
Describe possibilities for traffic modulation on intersections of urban roads.
Describe methods for traffic control on intersections.
Apply knowledge at design of intersection elements.
Analyze enter data for intersection design.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
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:
Recommended literature:
Design Manual. Washington State Department of Transportation, USA, http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/m22-01.htm
MEYER, M. and E. Miller. Urban Transportation Planning. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Additional study materials
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.