Course Details

Selected Chapters on Railway Structures 2

Academic Year 2023/24

CN053 course is part of 1 study plan

N-P-C-SI (N) / K Winter Semester 2nd year

Railway Act. Notices of Ministry for Transportation and Communication for railway transport. Law standards for engineers and attached public-law and private-law regulations.
Treaties and international agreements (AGC, AGTC, AETR, IRU, TEN-T etc.). Government regulations for transport ecology through combined transport. Strategy and perspectives for railway transport. Modernization of Czech railway corridors.
Transport systems, basic division. Common conditions for construction and transport operation following international agreements.
Combined transport system. Container transport system. System for trailers, pick-a-back systems, container transport, transport of cars.
Integrated transport system. Transport service in public aim.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of railway acts, treaties and international agreements and transport systems and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

Knowledge

A student acquires skills in railway acts, treaties and international agreements and transport systems.

Syllabus

1. Railway Act.
2. Notices of Ministry for Transportation and Communication for railway transport. Law standards for engineers and attached public-law and private-law regulations.
3. Treaties and international agreements (AGC, AGTC, AETR, IRU, TEN-T). Government regulations for transport ecology through combined transport.
4. Strategy and perspectives for railway transport.
5. Modernization of Czech railway corridors.
6. Transport systems, basic division.
7. General conditions for construction and transport operation following international agreements.
8. Combined transport system. Container transport system. System for trailers, pick-a-back systems.
9. Container transport, transport of cars.
10. Integrated transport system. Transport service in public aim.

Prerequisites

Basic terms, track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, railway substructure and superstructure, design of railway tracks and stations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

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. Railway Act. 2. Notices of Ministry for Transportation and Communication for railway transport. Law standards for engineers and attached public-law and private-law regulations. 3. Treaties and international agreements (AGC, AGTC, AETR, IRU, TEN-T). Government regulations for transport ecology through combined transport. 4. Strategy and perspectives for railway transport. 5. Modernization of Czech railway corridors. 6. Transport systems, basic division. 7. General conditions for construction and transport operation following international agreements. 8. Combined transport system. Container transport system. System for trailers, pick-a-back systems. 9. Container transport, transport of cars. 10. Integrated transport system. Transport service in public aim.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Railway Act. 2. Notices of Ministry for Transportation and Communication for railway transport. Law standards. 3. Treaties and international agreements, government regulations. 4. Strategy and perspectives for railway transport. 5. Modernization of Czech railway corridors. 6. Transport systems. 7. Conditions for construction and transport operation following international agreements 8. Container transport system. System for trailers, pick-a-back systems. 9. Container transport, transport of cars. 10. Integrated transport systems.