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Department of cross-sectional issues in transport (O17)

Department 17 - illustration photoThis department is engaged in solving the cross-sectional issues of transport economics and works on concepts of research planning in this area. It participates in the economic assessment of the quality of projects in frame of the National Research Programme of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and individual supra-regional projects of the Ministry for Regional Development. The basic task of this department is to search professional priorities and build support information databases.

Professional activity is focused on the issues of sustainable transport, with the following topics:

  • assessing the effectiveness of transport modes, their interconnection and mutual competitiveness,
  • application of cost-benefit analysis in transport,
  • multi-criteria analyses of transport systems,
  • development of E-commerce and its impact on transport,
  • economic aspects of impacts of charging the access to town centres,
  • economic aspects of leisure transport and transport in recreational areas,
  • analysis of implementation of EU directives into the national legislation on transport,
  • legal aspects of measures to increase transport safety, kilometre-based charging, and sustainable transport,
  • issues of transport infrastructure maintenance and repairs.

This department actively participates in profiling of the CDV’s training workplace for PhD studies and lifelong learning programmes, and in external involvement of CDV workers in educational process at universities.

Chief manager: Doc. Ing. Zdeněk Hřebíček, CSc.

Projects:

  • Analysis of motorway and expressway pricing.
  • Electronic payment of toll on roads.
  • Economic evaluation of losses incurred by road traffic accidents.
  • Harmonization of the Czech and EU transport legislation.
  • Study prepared for PENTA INVESTMENS, a.s. – Rail Freight Transport in Europe. Brno, 2005, p. 52.
  • Study prepared for the II a.s. Liberec – Hybrid Vehicles – study of the use of technology in the system Regiotram Nisa. Brno, 2007, p. 52.
  • ADVISORS – management, standardization and optimization of a road network and traffic safety.
  • ARCH – reducing the energy intensity of transport.
  • ESCAPE – enhancing the work efficiency of road police.
  • ERMTS – uniform system of traffic management on railways.
  • RTC – charging system for road motor vehicles and road traffic.
  • The OECD working group "Transport Infrastructure Investment: Funding Future Infrastructure Needs".
    • This working group deals with current methods and models of non-budgetary financing of transport infrastructure (PPP projects) that is used currently in many countries, partly due to the lack of financial resources in the private sector. These are the cases, where a private entity provides public utility services or other public utility, including financing, construction or upgrading of transport infrastructure.
  • The OECD working group "Surface transport networks: Improving reliability and levels of service".
    • This working group addresses the issues of internal transport networks in EU countries, their future development trends, reliability, unsatisfactory points in transport networks and optimal strategy for improving reliability and service level of transport infrastructure.
  • ENACT – project of the 6th EU Framework Programme, coordinator: TIS.pt, Consultores em Transportes, Inovação e Sistemas, S.A., Lisbon. The project deals with the creation of a socially optimal scheme of financing PPP projects in terms of pricing, the inevitable risks and the required level of profitability. The result of the project will be a basic set of guidelines for establishing a standard regulatory framework for a socially optimal design of PPP projects.

Services:

  • Professional seminar "Mechanization and implementation of railway constructions" in frame of the European Social Funds project "Increasing skills in the field of transport", organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava.