Course Details

Urban Engineering I

Academic Year 2022/23

TM01 course is part of 1 study plan

N-P-C-A / ARS / ArP Summer Semester 1st year

In encyclopedic form summary of the main principles of the draft municipal (local) roads based on traffic engineering documents.
Principles of organization and management of urban transport (road transport, public, pedestrian and bicycle traffic and static).
The influence of urban transport on the environment.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Recommended Reading

Krajčovič a kol.: Dopravní stavby I., VUT Brno, FAST, 1998. VUT Brno, 1998. (cs)
Pavlíček Jan: Městské komunikace, VUT v Brně, 1998. VUT v Brně, 1998. (cs)
Surovec Pavel: Tvorba systému mestskej hromadnej dopravy,. Žilinská univerzita, 1999. (cs)
Krajčovič a kol.: Silnice a dálnice I - Návody na vypracování cvičení,. VUT v Brně, 2000. (cs)

Syllabus

1. Historical development of urban transport and urban roads
Second Vehicles
2. Vehicles
3. Geometry movement wheeled road and rail vehicles, driving resistances
4. Theory of traffic flow, speed, intensity, density, spacing vehicles
5. Capacity section between junctions
6. Capacity controlled intersections
7. Capacity uncontrolled intersections
8. Urban communication, distribution and design elements of communications
9. Urban level and grade-separated junctions, crossroads simple, streamlined and controlled
10. Road buildings, tunnels, bridges, walls,
11. Individual motor transport
12. Static transport - parking and stopping of vehicles, garages
13. Current topic

Prerequisites

PC work, excellent knowledge of at least one of the CAD software and a software for the design of roads

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Historical development of urban transport and urban roads
Second Vehicles
2. Vehicles
3. Geometry movement wheeled road and rail vehicles, driving resistances
4. Theory of traffic flow, speed, intensity, density, spacing vehicles
5. Capacity section between junctions
6. Capacity controlled intersections
7. Capacity uncontrolled intersections
8. Urban communication, distribution and design elements of communications
9. Urban level and grade-separated junctions, crossroads simple, streamlined and controlled
10. Road buildings, tunnels, bridges, walls,
11. Individual motor transport
12. Static transport - parking and stopping of vehicles, garages
13. Current topic

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

The output of the seminar will be:
- Calculation of directional arc axis.
- Calculate the height arch leveling.
- Sample cross-section of local roads.
- Processing surveillance solution level urban intersection.