On 13-15 May 2019, ERAdiate and UNIZA researchers Assoc. Prof. Ľuboš Buzna, Assoc. Prof. Peter Počta and Dr. Tibor Petrov visited Transportation Research Institute of the Technion University in Haifa. This visit was the first meeting of the joint research project SENECA with the project partners Prof. Tomer Toledo, Dr. Ayelet Galtzur and Ilya Finkelberg. Visitors could learn about the... Continue reading→

A two-year project Technical Support related to Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators (SUMI) was approved by European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport with the aim to technically support urban areas in sustainable mobility development. After the preparatory phase and official involvement of two Slovak cities in the project, the implementation of SUMI successfully started in... Continue reading→

Would you like to know how much time you spend for commuting and travelling? The project MoTiV (Mobility and Time Value), coordinated by the ERAdiate team at the University of Žilina (UNIZA), entered its second phase and successfully launched the data collection campaign across 10 European countries in May 2019 (the list with participating countries... Continue reading→

ITS European Congress is traditionally the largest European event dedicated to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Organized by ERTICO – ITS Europe, this year´s event took place on 3-6 June 2019 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.  One of the city´s most famous landmarks – retro–futuristic Evoluon Congress Center hosted four days of parallel sessions devoted to seven... Continue reading→

The 9th Young Researchers Seminar was held in Thessaloniki on 5-7 June and it was organized by ECTRI in cooperation with FEHRL and FERSI. This three-day seminar offered a great opportunity to gather and interact to young transport researchers. The main objective of the seminar was to improve the presentation skills in written and oral... Continue reading→

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are attracting the interest of a growing number of researchers and practitioners, involved in addressing their broader implications on society. Within this context, Federico Costantini from the University of Udine organised on 6 March 2019 the International Workshop “Automated and Autonomous Vehicles: Technological Tests, Policy Challenges, Ethical and Legal Concerns”. The event was... Continue reading→

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. The peculiar nature of COST, running since 1971, lies in its open, inclusive and bottom-up approach to research and innovation. More than 240 COST Actions (i.e. science and technology networks) are currently running and involve about 45,000 researchers in... Continue reading→

ITAPA 2019 International Congress, the largest event in Slovakia aimed at digitising public administration in Slovakia, was held in Bratislava on 28 May 2019. Smart cities, Smart Mobility, eGovernment, Cybersecurity and Digital transformation were the main topics discussed at the ITAPA 2019 spring edition. Per invitation of the Office of Deputy Prime Minister for Investments... Continue reading→

The Slovak Radio and Television (RTVS) broadcasted on 2 May 2019 an episode of its science-oriented talk show Experiment dedicated to the topics of future transport, cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM). The guests of the show – ERA Chair holder of the ERAdiate project prof. Tatiana Kováčiková and ERAdiate team member Dr. Tibor Petrov... Continue reading→

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa hosted the Cost Action CA16222 WISE-ACT Training School 2019 whose topic was „Modelling and Policy Analysis Tools to Explore the Future of Autonomous and Connected Transport” (ACT). Training School aimed to support skill development of young researchers in key areas of ACT as well as to encourage... Continue reading→