Railway Traffic Control

Students of the Railway Traffic Control specialisation develop their knowledge in the field of: electronics, automation, digital technology, rail vehicles, technology of rail traffic, rail transport systems, rail telecommunications, rail traffic control, technology, elements and systems of rail traffic control - in the first-cycle degree programmes, and automation, digital control systems, rail overhead lines, systems of control of rail traffic, technology of rail traffic control – in the second-cycle degree programmes.

Graduates of the specialisation have the skills to design, build and maintain facilities and systems of rail traffic control. Second-cycle study graduates additionally have the skills to use IT and digital control techniques, to prepare technical and economic analyses of RTC systems, to analyse the level of safety and reliability, to ensure interoperability, as well as to design intelligent transport systems.

The graduates may use their qualifications by finding employment in:

• companies and organisational units which deal with building and maintaining automation facilities (of traffic control) in rail transport and the underground, and industrial plants which use rail transport,
• study and design offices that deal with automation of rail traffic,
• research centres.