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Code: 31501 Abbr.: AZZ Title: Safety Equipment Applications (in Slovak)
  MSc. degree programme in: Information and Safety Systems
Specialisation:
Lecturer: Doc. Ing. Jiří Zahradník, PhD., Department of Information and Safety Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina
Semester: Autumn
Recommended: 9.
Number of hours: Lectures - Seminars - Laboratory work
Per week: 3 - 0 - 2  Total per semester: 36 - 0 - 24
ECTS
Credits: 7
Prerequisites: Theory of safety systems, Components of safety systems, Systems with high integrity
Assessment:
- recognition of course work - 15 %
- written and oral examinations - 85 %
Aims and objectives:
Structure and behaviour analysis of selected types of railway safety equipment
Course content:
Position of a safety system inside the control system of railway traffic, control system requirements to processes occurred in safety system, line categories, kinds and classification of safety equipment, safety-related requirements to interlocking and signalling equipment, structure and behaviour of particular kinds of safety equipment, safety systems for particular category lines.
Recommended texts:
Poupě, O. & col.: Interlocking technology in railway transport II. NADAS, Praha, 1990 (in Czech)
Signal und Draht, Journal, 1997 (in German)
New railway technology, Journal, since 1994 (in Czech)
Note:  Date of the last revision: 25. 1. 2000
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