Description:

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.

Contents:

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)

Seminar contents:

1. Noise Measurement Equipment
(Practical demonstration of an acoustic camera Bionic-L, practical demonstration of an sound level meter)
2. Assignment and consultation of seminar thesis (selected issues in the field of rail transport and impact on the environment)
3. Presentation of seminar thesis and discussion

Recommended literature:

BONNETT, C.: Practical railway engineering. 2nd ed., London: Imperial College Press, 2005.
SATISH CHANDRA, M.: Railway engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
VUCHIC V.R.: Urban Transit: Systems and Technology, 1st.ed., Wiley, 2007.
THOMSON, D.: Railway noise and vibration, Mechanisms, modelling and means of control, Elsevier, 2009.

Keywords:

Railway Structures, Superstructure, Substructure, Rail Transit, Sound, Traffic Noise

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar