Course Details

Selected Chapters on Railway Structures 1 (DST)

Academic Year 2025/26

BNA007 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BPC-MI Summer Semester 3rd year

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289929

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Urban railway transport. Types of urban rail transport, basic division. Transport and traffic relationships.
  • 2. Traffic assessment. City public transport in the Czech Republic.
  • 3. METRO. Geometric track components, track alignment design parameters.
  • 4. Railway superstructure and substructure of METRO. Switches and crossings. Operation arrangement.
  • 5. Tramway. Geometric track components, track alignment design parameters.
  • 6. Tramway superstructure and substructure of tramway tracks. Switches and crossings. Operation arrangement.
  • 7. Railways in urban regions, integrated transport system. The main demands on infrastructure and operation
  • 8. High-speed tracks. Relationship to other types of rail transport in big cities.
  • 9. High-speed tracks, track alignment design parameters.
  • 10. Railway superstructure and substructure on high-speed tracks.
  • 11. Slab track, demands on design. Design of slab track substructures.
  • 12. Main types of slab track design. Demands on slab track on bridges, in tunnels, in transitions with the ballasted track. Construction and maintenance of high-speed tracks.
  • 13. Non-classic railway lines

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Specifying of the first project, guidelines to draw up.
  • 2. Guidelines to a design of the assembly of turnout in a curve with cant.
  • 3. Longitudinal profile of particular tracks and rails.
  • 4. Format and content of drawings – setting out the drawing.
  • 5. Submitting of the first project.
  • 6. Specifying of the project of a tramways junction.
  • 7. Design of tramway switches and crossings.
  • 8. Changes of track axes distances.
  • 9. Technical report.
  • 10.–12. Consultation on the project.
  • 13. Submitting of the second projects, credit.