Rail Transport

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range
12KOD	ZK

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Department of Transport Engineering

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Rail transport systems their parameters, advantages and disadvantages, optimal use.

Operational aspects of individual rail transport systems, basic parameters of rail vehicles and their infrastructure background.

Individual rail transport systems interfaces and compatibility among them (dual rail systems).

High-speed railway transport possible approaches, solutions, parameters, examples from the world. Increase of rail systems attractiveness and profitability conditions of the particular rail transport systems, basic principles of economic evaluation.

Geometrical parameters of railway track modern elements, various shapes of transition curves and cant transitions, their parameters, advantages and disadvantages.

Geometrical parameters of railway track derivation of non-linear transition curves and cant transitions parameters, determination of their lengths; derivation of vertical curve.

Selection of optimal variant of rail transport problem solution available tools (risks and multi-criterial analysis, systems analysis tools, operation research tools).

Selection of optimal variant of rail transport problem solution applications examples.

Transit transport terminals of passenger transport tools for their optimal shape and disposition.

Passengers movement modelling in transit transport terminals.

Intermodal freight transport with the use of rail transport technical and operation solutions.

Transport potential in passenger and freight transport available statistical data, transportation survey, transportation prediction.

Interoperability in railway transport in Europe, railway lines categories according to the Czech law and their impact to railway systems operation and development.

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