Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Urban Rail Systems and Train dynamics Course code: 117006 | 5 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 2
Semester: 4
Requirements:
Goal: Introducing students to the history of railway transportation systems, and railway rolling stock. Acquiring appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge of urban rail transit, non-adhesion public passenger transportation systems, and their technical and operational characteristics, principles of planning, constructing, operating, monitoring, control, management, and impact to the environment. Acquiring appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge of the fundamentals of train dynamics.
Outcome: Students will be able to recognize the elements of the urban rail transit, non-adhesion public passenger transportation systems, to compare the main technical and operational characteristic of different urban rail transit, and their rolling stock, to understand principles of planning, constructing, operating, monitoring, control, management, and impact on the environment. Students will be able to understand the theory of train dynamics and train traction, to independently perform basic calculations in the field of train traction (traction effort, train resistance, brake force of a train, train acceleration and deceleration, etc.).
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. The brief history of the railway and urban rail transit systems.
  2. Urban rail transit types and their basic technical and operational characteristics (tram, light rail, rapid transit, monorail, commuter rail, funicular, cable car, rollway)
  3. Urban non-adhesion public transportation systems (Maglev, etc.).
  4. Automated guideway transit (AGT), Sky train, automated people mover (APM), advanced rapid transit (ART), personal rapid transit (PRT).
  5. Visions for the future urban public systems.
  6. Power supply systems for urban rail transit
  7. Traffic control and management in urban rail transit.
  8. Impact of the urban rail transit on the environment
  9. The fundamentals of train dynamics.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. Practical instruction is followed by a lecture program. Exercises are auditory and computational. 1. The infrastructure elements of individual urban rail transit. 2. Technical and operational characteristics of urban rail vehicles. 3. Computation of traction effort, train resistance, brake force of a train, train acceleration and deceleration, etc. for the given powered vehicle on a given route (itinerary).
Textbooks and References
  1. Dinić, D., "Metro i sistemi za masovni prevoz putnika", Saobraćajni fakultet, Beograd, 1997
  2. Vuchich, V., "Urban Transit System and Technology", John Viley&Sons Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2007
  3. Zavada, J., "Vozila za javni gradski prijevoz", Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 2006.
  4. Milićević, Z., "Vuča vozova", Želnid, Beograd, 2001.
  5. "Metro systems around the world", UITP, May 2014.
  6. Milanović, Z., Autorizovana predavanja u Power Pointu, Visoka železnička škola strukovnih studija, Beograd.
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 2
Practical classes: 2
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
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activities during lectures
0
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
0
colloquium
0
Final exam
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Written exam
0
Oral exam
0