Roads

1. Explain the concept, types and properties of roads.
2. Recognize and analyse the factors affecting the development of a road project.
3. Compute necessary elements for road construction.
4. Create project of road construction.
5. Assemble necessary knowlage and work in a team during the development of a road project.
6. Explain the project to the professional public.

Lectures according plan

Road project design

1. Lectures: Road traffic and road network. Categorization of roads and road vehicles. Fundamental rules and regulations on roads. Seminar: Distribution of project task. Auditory exercices.
2. Lectures: Design elements of a road, situation, vertical profile, cross-sections (normal, characteristic), vertical clearance. Seminar: Tracing the road and ground plan.
3. Lectures: Driving and dynamic characteristics of the vehicle (speed, acceleration, deceleration, longitudinal and lateral shock, stopping sight distance), driver Seminar: Laying the tangents of horizontal curves, defining deflection angles.
4. Lectures: Horizontal alignment elements (straight, circular arc, transient curve). Seminar: Selection of the radius of circular arcs and transition of horizontal curves.
5. Lectures: Horizontal alignment guidance. Tracing the road axis in a ground plan, execution of situation. Seminar: Calculation of horizontal curve elements.
6. Lectures: Vertical alignment guidance (longitudinal gradient, vertical curves), execution of longitudinal profile. Seminar: Drawing axis horizontal alignment.
7. Lectures: Road cross-section elements (element dimensions, width, road widening, cross slopes). Seminar: Chainage calculation.
8. Lectures: 1 st PRE-EXAM – course content in lectures 1 – 7. Seminar: Drawing the terrain line in vertical profile.
9. Lectures: Road construction materials (soil, stone, bonding agents). Seminar: Vertical alignment.
10. Lectures: Earthworks. Investigative and preparatory work. Methods of making cuts and embankments, machinery, means of transport. Seminar: Calculating the elevation.
11. Lectures: Earthworks. Determining the cut and embankment slope and methods of protection. Retaining and revetment walls. Seminar: Developing the superelevation diagrams of road.
12. Lectures: Earthworks. Quality insurance, control testing. Calculation and mass balancing. Seminar: Developing a normal cross-section profile.
13. Lectures: Pavement structure. Types of pavement structures. Creating base and surfacing. Control testing. Seminar: Developing characteristic cross-section profiles.
14. Lectures: Road drainage. Drainage devices (protection and drainage ditches, side ditches, drainage, culverts), Seminar: Technical description.
15. Lectures: 2 nd PRE-EXAM – subject matter in lectures 9 – 14. Seminar: Completion and delivery of the project.