13-J0-0009-vl Traffic and Transport II

Instructors: Prof. Ph.D. Eva Kassens-Noor; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jia Liu; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Oetting; M.Sc. David Kempf; Miroslav Pejic; M. Eng. Salome Juliane Vogel

Event type: Lecture

Org-unit: Dept. 13 - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Displayed in timetable as: Verkehr II_vl

Subject:

Crediting for:

Hours per week: 4

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Digital Teaching:
All information sheet on the implementation of the course (lectures and exercises) in the winter semester 2021/22 will be made available on moodle.

Course Contents:
Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

• introduction to traffic management
  
• planning of public transport
  
• planning of commercial traffic
  
• traffic demand models
  
• traffic and the environment; traffic and safety
  

• construction of catenaries
  
• construction of railway switches and junctions, design of track fields
  
• basics of passenger transportation and commercial transport
  

• structural design of railways
  
• alignment and geometric design of roads
  
• intersection design of roads
  

• introduction to air transport management
  
• design and dimensioning of aprons, taxiways and runways
  
• design and dimensioning of airport terminals
  
• basics of air traffic control
  

Literature:
The lecture notes for the lessons Traffic and Transport I and Traffic and Transport II for the part Railway Systems wll be sold in the copy shop "city copies", Holzstraße 5 in Darmstadt from the first day of lectures. Opening times: Mon-Fri 08:00 - 18:00 Uhr and Sat 10:00 - 14:00

Preconditions:
Traffic and Transport I (can also be attended in parallel)

Further Grading Information:
The homework for the lecture Traffic II is subject to a test. The whole homework is given in six parts. 
All regulations and the bonus regulations concerning the homework can be found on the website of the IfV (https://www.verkehr.tu-darmstadt.de/stud_ifv/hausuebungen_ifv/auebungen/hausuebungen_v1_v2.de.jsp).
The deadlines for the parts of the excersises will be named. The tasks will be in moodle to download. The corrected/certified exercise parts can be obtained from the supervisor by mail. The recognition of the homework for students in a diploma course is mandatory to be permitted to the exam. Bachelor or master students are strongly recommended to also complete the homework before the exam.

Online Offerings:
Moodle