227-0216/01 – Rail Transport in Towns (KDM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Transport Constructions | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 4 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FAST | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with problems of rail transport in the cities and to practice the acquired knowledge and skills.
Students will acquire basic knowledge in the design, implementation, diagnostics buildings for rail transportation in the cities. Graduating student is able to describe and solve basic problems such as routing, rail track construction, design foundation, proposals related small structures (eg, drainage construction, station, etc., measures to reduce noise and vibration). The student acquires the skill to formulate problems, to form a basic proposed solution applying knowledge and skills to solve simple problems from the buildings of rail transport in the cities.
Teaching in Czech Language only
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
To ensure transportation needs in large cities use different rail transport systems. Subject Rail transport in the cities deals with the use of railway facilities for public transport. The content of teaching is the historical development of unconventional and rail transport, building the technical characteristics of transport (elements of the track and related objects), principles of design and construction of track and facilities tramway traffic, urban high-speed, metro, suburban railway building, unconventional transport (Maglev etc.. ).
Compulsory literature:
C.Esvelt : Modern Railway Track, MRT Productions 2001
Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)
The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour (A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality), Konstantinos Tzanakakis, 2013.
Recommended literature:
Standards:
EN 15273-1:2013 - Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock
EN 13848-6:2013 - Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality
EN ISO 3095:2013 - Railway applications – Acoustics – Measurement of noise emitted by railbound vehicles
EN 16272-3-2:2012 - Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 3-2: Normalized railway noise spectrum and single number ratings for direct field applications
EN 16272-6:2014 - Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 6: Intrinsic characteristics — In situ values of airborne sound insulation under direct sound field conditions
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 70% attendance at the exercises. Absence, up to a maximum of 30%, must be excused and the apology must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides to recognize the reason for the excuse). Tasks assigned on the exercises must be hand in within the dates set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
- Historical development, legislation, characteristics, principles of rail transport solutions
in cities
- Tram service - characteristics, tram cars, the principles of solution
tram routes and related objects (stations, depots, turning movements, shunt ...)
- Structural and geometric arrangement of the tram tracks tracks
- The layout of tracks tram tracks
- Track construction
exercise:
Practical exercises elements of design, geometry and spatial
arrangement of railway track and design objects (platforms, turntable, ...)
Individual preparation and presentation of assigned topics taught issues
a workshop.
- Metro (characteristics, tram cars, principles and solutions tram routes
related objects, ...)
- Structural and geometric arrangement of the metro rail
- The layout of the metro rail
- Metro Rail construction
- Suburban rail transport - characteristics, the principles of solution
- Examples of solutions to commuter rail and urban transport in large cities,
- Construction solution integrated transport nodes and related objects
- Unconventional transportation - types, history, development,
- Maglev - principles, construction of the roadway ....
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction