Course Details

Roads 2

Academic Year 2024/25

BMA002 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-MI Summer Semester 3rd year

Introduction to the road transportation. Basic design work, design documentation. Highway routing, design elements of route. Technical category, design elements for horizontal and vertical alignment, width configuration of a road in a cross section. Optimization of route, relation of horizontal and vertical alignment, aesthetics of road. Assessment and evaluation of route design, alternatives, road safety and environmental assessment.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Michal Radimský, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Road Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Route design, knowledge of used road materials and typical pavement constructions.

Aims

The objective is to gain the basic information about the road construction materials, its use for particular layers, system of testing, various road construction and maintenance technologies and dimensioning of flexible and rigid road constructions.
The student is able to manage the goal of the subject by getting a complex overview over the quality system in road construction, particular technologies and necessary machinery, which are used for the construction, maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of the road structures.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281440

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Highway network and its development.
  • 2. Route, Design category.
  • 3. horizontal alignment.
  • 4. Vertical alignment.
  • 5. Cross sections, earthworks, its measurement, volume diagram.
  • 6. Water drainage of roads.
  • 7. Culverts.
  • 8. Crossroads I.
  • 9. Crossroads II.
  • 10. Constructions on roads.
  • 11. Safety equipment.
  • 12. Road safety and environmental.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Software for design.
  • 2. Horizontal alignment.
  • 3. Vertical alignment.
  • 4. Cross section, Superelevation.
  • 5. Water drainage.
  • 6. Project assignment.
  • 7. Crossroad, crossing.
  • 8. Earthwork, Volumes.
  • 9. Multicriteria analyse
  • 10. Design Report.
  • 11. Project.
  • 12. Project.
  • 13. Project.