The ‘Maintenance of Road Infrastructure (II)’ course offers you the opportunity to gain an insight into a booming sector where demand for skilled workers continues to grow. Road infrastructure is the backbone of our transport network, and its maintenance is crucial to ensuring the safety and efficiency of traffic. This course will equip you with specialist skills in signage, road markings and guardrails, as well as in the management of tunnel facilities and winter road maintenance. You will learn how to to identify and resolve critical problems affecting the road infrastructure, ensuring safe traffic flow all year round. With a theory-based approach, it will enable you to acquire key knowledge from anywhere, at your own pace. Taking this course will not only broaden your technical skills, but will also position you as an indispensable professional in the field of road maintenance.
Maintenance of Road Structures (II)
Civil Engineering and Structures
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
- To understand the current regulations on road signage.
- Identify and distinguish between different types of navigation marks and fenders.
- To assess safety in tunnel facilities.
- To learn about winter road maintenance techniques and how they are applied.
- To analyse the impact of road signs on road safety.
- Apply maintenance criteria to road verges.
- Interpret plans and diagrams of tunnel installations.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. ROAD SIGNS
Definition, design and characteristics of road signs.
Retroreflection and criteria for the installation of road signs.
Road signage works.
Definition, purpose and characteristics of road markings.
Materials, selection criteria and application of road markings.
TEACHING UNIT 2. MARKINGS AND PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES.
Definition, classification and marking elements.
Installation and operation of navigation aids
Fencing.
Vehicle restraint systems. Safety barriers and parapets.
Arrangement of barriers and parapets. Other vehicle containment systems.
TEACHING UNIT 3. TUNNEL FACILITIES
Diagnosis of the installations.
Diagnosis and treatment of tunnel syndromes.
Tunnels – Facilities.
Tunnels – Structural elements.
Tunnels – Condition of the linings.
TEACHING UNIT 4. WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE.
General information.
Organisation of winter road maintenance work.
Founding materials and machinery.
Acting techniques.
Meteorology and management systems.