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

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

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.

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

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

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

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

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.