Course Details

Transportation Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

NNB017 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

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/295968

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Transport terminology, basic terms, strategy and development of transport in the Czech Republic according to EU.
  • 2. Transport infrastructure and its relation to EU.
  • 3. Development of world railway network. Development and characteristics of railway network within the Czech territory, organizing and maintenance structure of Czech Railways.
  • 4. The basic division of railway structures. Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, track alignment design parameters for tilting trains.
  • 5. Geodesic survey of the spatial position of rail tracks, optimization tasks of rail spatial position, alignment and assurance of rail spatial position.
  • 6. Track clearances, axial distances of rail tracks.
  • 7. Rail switch construction. Subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers – basic terms.
  • 8. Construction of rail superstructure.
  • 9. Urban rail transport.
  • 10. Characteristics of railway and highway network within CR, urban communications and airports, integrated transportation systems. Categories of roads and highways, local transport communications, detaching and parking areas.
  • 11. Routes of road communication, horizontal and vertical alignment, change of lateral declination.
  • 12. Width arrangement of land communications. Earth object and draining. Road and its construction. Safety devices.
  • 13. Data collection for automatic projecting, projecting line structures with the help of computer techniques.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Rail track gauge
  • 2. Gauge widening.
  • 3. Cant, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency.
  • 4. Specifying of the design of a section double track line.
  • 5. Calculations of track layout of a circular curve with transition curves.
  • 6. Reverse curves.
  • 7. Transition curves connecting two circular curves.
  • 8. Compound curves.
  • 9. Vertical track alignment.
  • 10.-12.. Drawings elaboration.
  • 13. Submitting of the design of a section of double track line.