Operational Programme Technologie a aplikace pro konkurenceschopnost (national project)
Project Duration:
2024 - 2026
Project Goal:
The aim of the project is to develop a functional prototype of an autonomous and mobile H₂ fueling station through industrial research and experimental development — a solution for hydrogen storage and distribution across multiple consumption sites.
Collaboration:
The Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University (CTU) is collaborating with FOR Engineering s.r.o. www.foreng.cz
The project focuses on strengthening cross-border cooperation among stakeholders involved in tourism and transport services in the Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland region.
Project Goal:
The primary goal of the project is to strengthen cooperation among all stakeholders in the affected region, fostering mutual trust and joint solutions to challenges arising from often conflicting objectives — namely, nature conservation versus the promotion of tourism. The project will address several key topics, such as the number of visitors in the national parks and potential methods for regulating them; transport services in the region, with a focus on balancing public and private car use; parking in municipalities, including its capacity and regulation; and public transport, with an emphasis on quality, integration between the Czech and Saxon areas, capacity, transfer hubs, a unified fare system, and passenger information.
Collaboration:
Project partners include TU Dresden, the Administration of the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, and Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge GmbH. Additional collaborators on the project include DÚK, VVO, the Administration of the Saxon Switzerland National Park, and others.
Programme Johannes Amos Comenius (national project)
Project Duration:
2023 - 2028
Project Acronym:
SimulUK
Annotation:
The project will primarily focus on creating a comprehensive environment for the development of advanced driver assistance and autonomous vehicle systems in the Ústí Region. This includes the expansion of the virtual model of the U SMART ZONE — a testing ground for such systems — to approach the standard of a digital twin. The goal is to provide a complex, heterogeneous, and stochastic environment for virtual testing of vehicle systems and for the development of traffic simulations, particularly those using the human-in-the-loop (evaluating human behavior) and vehicle-in-the-loop (evaluating vehicle behavior in simulated conditions) approaches.
Both methods benefit from highly realistic visual rendering and parallel testing capabilities — that is, measuring and comparing data in both real and simulated environments over the same road segment. This process will subsequently lead to the creation of methodologies for building large-scale virtual models designed for advanced traffic simulations.
Collaboration:
The project is a collaboration between the Faculty of Transportation Sciences and the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and the company Aurel CZ.
