Czech

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Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

A student acquires skills in problems of railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic.

Design of railway stops, goods points and operation control points, especially railway stations

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1. Passenger stations, types, technology, extent. Switch and track layout, equipment and efficiency. Railhead and trough passenger stations.
2. Storage stations, technology, sets of tracks arrangement. Equipment of storage stations
3. Shunting yards, functions, position in railway network. Development of sorting technology. Set of reception sidings.
4. Hump, technical equipment, sets of tracks design, longitudinal section of hump track, dynamic estimation.
5. Set of sorting sidings. Set of departure sidings, tracks for thoroughgoing trains.
6. Depots, running shed. Technology, arrangement of trackage. Railway siding (factory, industrial), set of tracks, connection to railway stations, interchange tracks.
7. Railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic
8. New methods for railway vehicles monitoring, satellite monitoring system in railway traffic
9. Track recording cars for electric catenary system. Track recording cars for clearances.
10. Signaling systems and automatic train control system

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The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of railway junctions, passenger and goods traffic in them and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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Jirsák, Z.: Železničné stanice a uzly. Bratislava, 1979. (SK)
Klimeš, F.: Železniční stavitelství II. Praha, 1981. (CS)

ESVELD, Coenraad: Modern Railway Track. MRT - Production, 2001. ISBN 90-800324-3-3. (EN)