Course detail
Special Topics of Highways
FAST-NMB016Acad. year: 2025/2026
The subject covers problem solving, which are met in the practice.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Road Structures (PKO)
Entry knowledge
Knowledge of road design and construction, technologies of road onstruction
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Type testing of asphalt mixtures, new technologies for road construction and maintenance, requierements for road building, environmental aspects of transportation.
Students get practical knowledge of asphalt mixture tests and examinations, asphalt mixture production. They learn about quality management standards in road building, about environmental and health riscs effected by traffic and by road building.
Students get practical knowledge of asphalt mixture tests and examinations, asphalt mixture production. They learn about quality management standards in road building, about environmental and health riscs effected by traffic and by road building.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Not applicable.
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-SIK Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Traffic in the world.
- 2. Functional tests of bitumens.
- 3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
- 4. Asphalt mixtures production.
- 5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
- 6. Functional tests of soils.
- 7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
- 9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.
Exercise
13 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Traffic in the world.
- 2. Functional tests of bitumens.
- 3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
- 4. Asphalt mixtures production.
- 5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
- 6. Functional tests of soils.
- 7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
- 9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.