The ERAdiate team at the University of Žilina is looking for a Senior Researcher in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Responsibilities – Acting as key expert for advancing ITS-research – Support in advancing the research strategy – Independent applied scientific research on par with international standards – Acquisition of research funds from national and international funding programmes...

Viktor Stromcek, the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Transport, shared with Portal his thoughts on intelligent transport systems and Slovakia’s role in the transition to an autonomous transport future. Intelligent Transport Systems: a Tool or a Toy?, held in November in Žilina, Slovakia, took as its theme the role of research and industrial... Continue reading→

Within the field of intelligent transport systems (ITS) the accurate positioning of vehicles via satellite is crucial. According to the Satellite Positioning Performance Assessment for Road Transport (SaPPART) COST Action, GNSS is “expected to deliver many benefits, including reducing congestion, increasing capacity and improving safety. The road sector is estimated to represent more than 50%... Continue reading→

Dr Floridea di Ciommo met with Portal in Žilina, Slovakia, to discuss some of the equity considerations in the field of intelligent transport systems There is, it seems, quite a significant lack of understanding of equity implications when it comes to the assessment and appraisal of transport projects and policies. When Portal travelled to the... Continue reading→

In December 2016, the University of Žilina joined the European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA). Founded in 2002, EARPA is the association of automotive R&D organisations. It brings together the most prominent independent R&D providers in the automotive sector throughout Europe, from large and small commercial organisations to national institutes and universities. EARPA is the platform... Continue reading→

The international conference “Intelligent Transport Systems: a Tool or a Toy?” – Research and innovation opportunities and challenges for autonomous driving and new transport models took place in Žilina on 22-23 November 2016. It was held under the auspices of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union and gathered 125 participants from 22... Continue reading→

ERAdiate team member Dr. Giuseppe Lugano has been recently nominated as the Slovak representative in the Management Committee of two COST Actions, namely COST TU1305 on “Social Networks and Travel Behaviour” (ending in March 2018) and COST CA15212 on “Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe” (ending in September 2020). Although not strictly focused on... Continue reading→

What types of user strategies lead to networks that are inherently resilient to overloads of demand or to temporary outages of failed resources? This is the central research question of the project “Decentralised real-time electric vehicle charging: optimality, fairness and resilience”, in which ERAdiate participates via doc. Ing. Ľuboš Buzna. The project, to be run... Continue reading→

As ERAdiate prepares for upcoming calls for project proposals and improves UNIZA’s readiness in selected trend-setting topics within sustainable mobility, the project team is looking for part-time employees to start as soon as possible. The minimal requirement is a Bachelor degree in a transport related field. The duties are to carry out investigations about available... Continue reading→

Eighty experts and representatives from politics and economy from 7 European countries met on 10 November 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the 5th annual IRE Green Mobility Conference on the topic ‘’Master Mobility Plan for Green cities – sustainable and interconnected cities in Europe”. The scope of this conference is to bring up aspects of sustainable... Continue reading→