| 1. | Course Title | Regulation in the Railway Transport | |||||||||||
| 2. | Code | 4ФЕИТ12010 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Study program | 17-REEKS | |||||||||||
| 4. | Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |||||||||||
| 5. | Degree (first, second, third cycle) | Second cycle | |||||||||||
| 6. | Academic year/semester | I/1 | 7. | Number of ECTS credits | 6.00 | ||||||||
| 8. | Lecturer | Dr Zoran Krakutovski | |||||||||||
| 9. | Course Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Course Goals (acquired competencies):
Knowledge of the railway transport, its specifics and regulations in the Republic of Macedonia and the EU. |
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| 11. | Course Syllabus:
1. Railway transport: the classification of rail transport, advantages and inconveniences of railway transport. 2. Globalization and liberalization of rail transport: the impact of rail transport in the processes of globalization, the division of railway companies – various forms of division, EU policy in the field of rail transport. 3. Legislation in railway transport: domestic legislation, UIC documents, place, role and responsibilities of each stakeholder in the railway transport, technical standards for interoperability of rail transport – EU directives, experiences from the application of EU legislation in EU countries, South-East Europe and the Republic of Macedonia. 4. Planning and managing projects of the railway transport: railway and socio-economic development of the society, competitiveness and impacts of the railway on the environment, feasibility studies on rail investments and methods of financing, project management for construction of new railroads, reconstruction and maintenance of existing lines, planning of activities. |
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| 12. | Learning methods:
Lectures and exercises with presentations and simulations, interactivity of classes, homework and preparation of project assignments. |
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| 13. | Total number of course hours | 180 | |||||||||||
| 14. | Distribution of course hours | 3 + 3 | |||||||||||
| 15. | Forms of teaching | 15.1 | Lectures-theoretical teaching | 45 hours | |||||||||
| 15.2 | Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork | 45 hours | |||||||||||
| 16. | Other course activities | 16.1 | Projects, seminar papers | 30 hours | |||||||||
| 16.2 | Individual tasks | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 16.3 | Homework and self-learning | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 17. | Grading | ||||||||||||
| 17.1 | Exams | 30 points | |||||||||||
| 17.2 | Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 17.3. | Activity and participation | 20 points | |||||||||||
| 17.4. | Final exam | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 18. | Grading criteria (points) | up to 50 points | 5 (five) (F) | ||||||||||
| from 51 to 60 points | 6 (six) (E) | ||||||||||||
| from 61 to 70 points | 7 (seven) (D) | ||||||||||||
| from 71 to 80 points | 8 (eight) (C) | ||||||||||||
| from 81 to 90 points | 9 (nine) (B) | ||||||||||||
| from 91 to 100 points | 10 (ten) (A) | ||||||||||||
| 19. | Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam | 60% success of all before examination activities | |||||||||||
| 20. | Forms of assessment | Tests, creation and presentation of seminary tasks | |||||||||||
| 21. | Language | Macedonian | |||||||||||
| 22. | Method of monitoring of teaching quality | Self evaluation | |||||||||||
| 23. | Literature | ||||||||||||
| 23.1. | Required Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | Zoran Krakutovski | Railway design | Faculty of civil engineering Skopje | ||||||||||
| 2. | V.A. Profillidis | Railway Management and Engineering – third edition | Ashgate, USA | ||||||||||
| 3. | Coenraad Esvald | Modern Railway Track | MRT – Productions, Germany | ||||||||||
| 23.2. | Additional Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | EU | Interoperability of the rail System | Official Journal of the EU 191/1, 126/53 | ||||||||||
