Rail Traffic and Environment

Kód předmětu: 137TENV
Garant předmětu: Ing. Leoš Horníček, Ph.D.
Zakončení předmětu: Z,ZK
Počet kreditů: 2 kred.
Rozsah výuky: 1+1

Anotace(semestr )
Basic principles for designing of railway and tramway structures, European railway network, rail transport, environmental impacts - acoustics, traffic noise and vibrations, noise control, modelling and attenuation of traffic noise.
Obsah 
1. Railway Structures 1
(Brief history of railways, European railway network, Czech Railway Network, railway structures - railway substructure)
2. Railway Structures 2
(Railway structures - railway superstructure, track layout, other track properties)
3. Traffic Effect on Environment
(Transport - basic information and characteristics, transport statistics, external costs of transport, positive and negative effects of railway transportation, accidents caused by traffic, waste from railway traffic)
4. Urban Rail Transit
(Light Rail Transit, Light Rail Rapid Transit, Rail Rapid Transit, Monorail)
5. Tramway Lines 1
(Genesis of electric tramway, contemporary tramways)
6. Tramway Lines 2
(Track parameters and structure, track geometry, super elevation and gauge, substructure, superstructure)
7. Traffic Noise
(Sound, noise and vibration, sound propagation, sound levels, sound sources, types of traffic noise, sound measurement)
Literatura 
[1]  BONNETT, C.: Practical railway engineering. 2nd ed., London: Imperial College Press, 2005.
[2]  SATISH CHANDRA, M.: Railway engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
[3]  VUCHIC V.R.: Urban Transit: Systems and Technology, 1st.ed., Wiley, 2007.
[4]  THOMSON, D.: Railway noise and vibration, Mechanisms, modelling and means of control, Elsevier, 2009.
Návaznosti 
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Studijní plány 
Předmět je zařazen do následujících studijních plánů:

- studijní plán Civil Engineering (BD2020), skupina Civil Engineering, Optional subjects, 7-8th semester (BD20200700_2), dop. semestr 7 (valid from 2020/21 )