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Ing. Pavel Vrtal, Ph.D.

Ing. Tomáš Blodek; Ing. Petr Kašpar; Ing. Bc. Karel Kocián, Ph.D.; Ing. Tomáš Kohout; Ing. Pavel Vrtal, Ph.D.

The objective of the project will be to extend and modify the existing methods used to provide night traffic safety analyses. The topic will be based on the use of specialised methods (3D scanning, luminance analysis) to obtain detailed data related to safety and visibility issues of all road users. One of the results of this project will be a detailed model of the night scene based on the information obtained from the luminance analyser and the 3D scanner. The goal is to present a new method of designing virtual environments and to specify the differences and limitations that currently occur in similar studies. At the same time, the main researcher also targets the extension of the knowledge and usability of the methods of luminance analysis for the professional public, as it is more often confronted with general unknown of the issue. The results of the research will improve the state of knowledge in the field of nigh road safety analyses and introduce ways how to model these conditions. The project will serve as the main basis for the doctoral thesis of one of the researchers.

2024 - 2025

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS24/109/OHK2/2T/16

doc. Ing. Petr Bouchner, Ph.D.; Ing. Michaela Frebortová; Bc. Jakub Hruška; Ing. Tomáš Kohout; RNDr. Petr Kubera, Ph.D.; Ing. Bc. Kateřina Mičunková; doc. Ing. Stanislav Novotný, Ph.D.; Ing. Josef Nový, Ph.D.; Ing. Zdeněk Svatý, Ph.D.; Ing. Josef Svoboda; Ing. Jan Thiele; Ing. Přemysl Toman; Ing. Pavel Vrtal, Ph.D.; Ing. Jan Válek, Ph.D.; Ing. Jiří Zeisek; Ing. Libor Žídek

The project will mostly focus on creating a complex environment for the development of advanced assistance and autonomous vehicle systems in the Ústí Region. This will include the expansion of the virtual model U SMART ZONE - a polygon for testing advanced assistance and autonomous vehicle systems so that it approaches the standard of a virtual twin and offers a complex, heterogeneous and stochastic environment for virtual testing of vehicle systems and the creation of traffic simulations, especially of the human-in- the-loop (testing the behavior of the human factor) and vehicle-in-the-loop (testing the behavior of vehicles in a simulated environment). Both of these 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.

2023 - 2028

Programme Johannes Amos Comenius - CZ.02.01.01/00/23_021/0009003

Ing. Bc. Karel Kocián, Ph.D.; Ing. Tomáš Kohout; doc. Ing. Tomáš Mičunek, Ph.D.; Ing. Jakub Nováček, Ph.D.; Ing. Tereza Šimková

The solution is based on a methodologically new approach to road accident prediction. This will be based on specific elements identified in the analysis of accident sites (road accident rates, traffic safety deficits) and road passport. In this way, a forecast of the emergence of new accident sites will be made. The purpose is to get them rectified in time. For the effective presentation of results, a map application will be developed, containing the scientific and research results achieved. They may be presented in this form, for example, to road managers. The mapping application will be based on a detailed database containing a comprehensive parametrisation of the road sections concerned, such as traffic intensities or infrastructure design elements, including defects in transport equipment. The database will also contain already identified traffic-safety deficits extracted from the CEBASS web application "Central Register of Road Network Safety Analyses". The project will also serve as the main basis for the principal investigator's dissertation.

2021 - 2022

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS21/138/OHK2/2T/16

Ing. Bc. Karel Kocián, Ph.D.; doc. Ing. Tomáš Mičunek, Ph.D.; Ing. Jakub Nováček, Ph.D.; Ing. Lucie Vlčková; Ing. Pavel Vrtal, Ph.D.

The project will primarily be devoted to the creation of a systematic tool for assessing the level of safety at railway crossing points in Czech Republic. The research task presented is both closely related and part of the applicant's dissertation, in which the author aims to implement the use of hierarchically structured data in the framework of transport safety analysis. Knowing that there is currently no comprehensive instrument that summarises and takes into account all relevant criteria affecting the level of safety at railway crossings, an initiative to create such an instrument is developed on the part of the applicant. As a number of interrelated parameters affect safety issues at railway crossings, these parameters will be clearly defined within the framework of the creation of ontology. The topicality of this idea also confirms the ever-decreasing trend in the number of road accidents at railway crossings and the resulting societal losses. At the same time, it is undoubtedly essential to look at the regulation of railway crossings as a precaution, i.e. to try to prevent accidents even at those railway crossings which do not currently show an accident, but which nevertheless appear to be risky in terms of traffic or construction arrangements or markings.

2021 - 2022

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS21/137/OHK2/2T/16

Ing. Bc. Karel Kocián, Ph.D.; Ing. Tomáš Kohout; doc. Ing. Tomáš Mičunek, Ph.D.; Ing. Pavel Vrtal, Ph.D.

The project aims to create a catalogue of restraint systems on the primary road network in the Czech Republic. Nowadays, the safety deficits of restraint systems are classified by a three-stage scale that is defined by the methodology certified by Ministry of Transport. The specification and description of the individual stages is very general. Thus, the determination of different severity for the same types of deficits is problematic and unsystematic, when assessed by individual road safety auditors. Furthermore, it is not possible to decide objectively and efficiently on the priority of individual corrective measures based on this type of assessment. The proposed catalogue will contain all types of restraint systems, their design parameters and photo documentation. Main aim is to summarise and cover all necessary information related to particular restrains systems along the selected roads. The catalogue will form a base for the dissertation thesis of the supervisor of submitted project and it closely relates to the issues of safety inspection of the road network. Additionally, the catalogue of restraint systems will not be used only for the purposes of the dissertation thesis, but it will also be applied within the current research projects at the Institute of Forensic Expertise in Transport, which, among many other activities, also deals with road security.

2020 - 2022

Studentská grantová soutěž ČVUT - SGS20/199/OHK2/3T/16