Following our activities in the field of transport engineering, smart transport technologies, and sustainable transport, we are implementing a project to improve public transport in Czech-Saxon Switzerland.
This project reflects the rapidly changing world of transport and the long-term decline in the proportion of passengers in public transport in favor of private cars. Some locations suffer from this trend more than others. One such location is the tourist-exposed area of Czech and Saxon Switzerland, which experiences a huge influx of parked vehicles during tourist seasons, bringing many negative impacts across the protected landscape area.
The aim of the project is to create strategies and implement measures that will improve the quality of public transport and reduce the share of individual car transport in the Czech-Saxon Switzerland region. The main focus is on analyzing the current state of transport, developing collection parking lots, and increasing the attractiveness of mass transport.
The project focuses on several key areas. The first step is a detailed analysis and survey of the current state of public transport in the region. This analysis focuses on passenger satisfaction and identifying key factors that affect the quality of transport services. It also includes data analysis from transport surveys, where the number of parked vehicles in the national park is determined.
Strategic planning plays a crucial role in the project. Experts, based on surveys, present recommendations that are integrated into broader strategic plans for the development of transport infrastructure, enabling long-term and sustainable development of the transport system in the parks.
Coordination and communication between all involved parties is another key aspect of the project. Organizing meetings, preparing documentation, and supporting administrative tasks are essential for the successful implementation of the project.
The project has ambitious goals, including increasing the efficiency of public transport, reducing the share of individual car transport, improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of Czech-Saxon Switzerland, and protecting national parks.
The project leader is the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences - Děčín branch. Project partners are TU Dresden, Administration of the Czech Switzerland National Park, and Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge GmbH. Other collaborators include DÚK, VVO, Administration of the Saxon Switzerland National Park, and others.
If you have any questions about the project, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Ing. Jiří Zeisek, zeisek@fd.cvut.cz, +420 720 071 343
The project will largely focus on creating a comprehensive environment for the development of advanced driver assistance and autonomous vehicle systems in the Ústí nad Labem region. This will include the expansion of the virtual model U SMART ZONE - a polygon for testing advanced driver assistance and autonomous vehicle systems to approach the standard of a digital twin and offer a comprehensive, heterogeneous, and stochastic environment for virtual testing of vehicle systems and the creation of traffic simulations, primarily of the human-in-the-loop type (testing human factor behavior) and vehicle-in-the-loop (testing vehicle behavior in a simulated environment). Both approaches benefit from highly realistic visual processing and the possibility of parallel testing, i.e., measuring and comparing values in real and simulated environments on the same road section. From this process, methods for creating extensive virtual models intended for advanced traffic simulations will subsequently be developed.
The project is a collaboration between the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Transportation Sciences and Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, together with the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, and the company Aurel CZ.
If you are interested in this project, you can read more about it in the article Project SimulUK.
If you have any questions about the project, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Ing. Martin Scháno, schano@fd.cvut.cz, +420 606 771 763