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Department of humanities in transport (O36)

The department deals with sociology, psychology, and education in transport.

In more details, the department deals with transport in land use planning in terms of locations of transport networks and structures, which at the moment is one of the most important decisions affecting the future development in towns and regions. Experts in this field design such measures that would help to eliminate in a highest possible degree the negative effects on population, and in contrast contribute to positive effects - better mobility and higher quality of life.

Another professional issue is the arrangement of public space in relation to the functional municipal structure (so-called Design for All), or the issue of pedestrians in town and city environments.

A particular attention is paid by the department to elderly and disabled people in transport, particularly through designing various measures (adapting road technical parameters, road signing, public transport vehicles and stops, public activities, education system, provision of information, active involvement of elderly and disabled people in the decision-making processes) which improve their everyday life.

Transport psychology experts deal with the issue of human behaviour and experience in transport environment particularly in relation to road traffic safety. They study relations within the system human - machine - the environment with the use of simulator studies as well as the studies in real conditions; deal with the issue of ergonomics, correct arrangement of control, information, and assistance elements in vehicles; capability to drive motor vehicles - study the effects of illnesses, medicaments, and drugs on the capability to drive motor vehicles, provide expertise in the area of designing safe roads, in-depth analysis and legislation measures in road traffic; deal with modern forms of education and training of drivers, preparation of rehabilitation programmes for problematic drivers, and perform transport psychological examination.

The research in the field is further focused on risky behaviour of children and the youth and related prevention, on the perception of risk factors and the influence of interpersonal and situation factors on behaviour of a group in question. Based on the findings, didactic and methodological materials, ideas for implementing transport education in school education programmes and individual education areas, didactic and education games, and awareness materials are designed. The issue of education is dealt with in complex manner. For teachers and non-educational employees the experts provide education programmes focused on integrating elements of transport education into standard tuition as well as into tuition in the form of blocks and projects. In this field the issue of driving schools plays an important role. Based on the research we focus on education in driving schools, so that the most suitable methods of education and training for driving licence applicants were implemented.

Chief manager: Mgr. Emil Drápela