BRIEF PARTNER PROFILE
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) was founded in 1782, and is one of the largest higher educational institutions in engineering in Central Europe. The university holds an international reputation for excellence in engineering.
The Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering aims to be the scientific centre in the fields of transportation engineering, vehicle engineering and logistics engineering. The Faculty’s mission defines the undertaking of high level of scientific activity, research and development, offering expertise and consultation to transport and vehicle industry companies, the logistics services sector and to industrial policy makers.
The Department of Transport Technology and Economics has been carrying out research and education in the interdisciplinary fields of transportation engineering and economics for about 60 years, focusing on questions like strategic and operative planning, operation and management, decision support in transport, evaluation and control of transport networks, analysis of passenger transport processes, taking into account the aspects of transport safety and sustainability.
PROJECT INVOLVEMENT
BME is heavily involved in the Budapest pilot, which is part of WP8 (Demonstration and Proof of Concept). This includes data collection, analysis and information exchange between transport operators and other partners in Budapest. BME is also involved in WP4 (End-User), WP6 (Dynamic & Personalised MaaS Services) and WP9 (Dissemination and Impact Management) In WP4 our main task is the support to the surveys and analysis of user choices. We provide support in the creation of survey templates, translation of surveys and analysis of results based on the local context. In WP6 BME contributes to the development of the dynamic journey planner and in the development of the personalized product selection. We provide support in the inclusion of real-time and historical traffic data, forecasting and analysis of traffic situation, application of routing algorithms and elaboration of the fitness function. Furthermore, we help in the identification of user preferences for the definition of user profiles and creation of personalized products. BME also provides information for any related WP about local context and disseminate results of the project, especially the results of the Hungarian demonstration.
KEY PERSONNEL
Dr. István Varga (Male): received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in transportation engineering from BME in 1997 and 2007, respectively. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems. He also holds a Senior Research Fellow position with the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include road traffic modelling, estimation, and control with applications in intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Varga is member of the Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport and the Committee on Transport Engineering of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. János Tóth (Male): received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in transportation engineering from BME. He is the Head of Department of Transport Technology and Economics since 2007. He is the Secretary of Committee on Transport Engineering of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and General Secretary of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Hungarian Training Foundation for Transport Engineers. He is a professional in impact assessment issues in the field of transportation, development of multi criteria evaluation methods and decision support for transport policy. A recent project, called BusEye was realized by Dr. Tóth, which was about the development of an online personalized passenger information system.
Dr. Csaba Csiszár (Male): is associate professor at Department of Transport Technology and Economics. His main research fields are: Transport informatics, Passenger transport systems, Mobility as a service and all related issues. His most important research projects have been realized in themes: Interconnection of transportation modes with telematics tools; Forecasting of traffic flow parameters; BusEye – online personalized passenger information system. His resent research themes are: Route Evaluation Method for Personalized Passenger Information Service; Personalized Parking Assistant Application; Quality Analysis Method of Car-sharing Services; Integrated Information Management of Intermodal Mobility Chains; App-based Mobility Services; Electromobility; Autonomous Urban Public Transportation. He is supervisor of 5 PhD students.
Dr. Tamás Tettamanti (Male): received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in traffic engineering from BME in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems. His research interests include urban road traffic modelling, estimation, and control with applications in intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Tettamanti was involved in several research projects, as Smarter Transport and NFÜ Travel Dashboard (EIT KIC). He also continuously participates in industrial project, e.g. support for the Hungarian Road Authority in the development projects concerning the Hungarian road traffic control system. He is the member of the Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport, Committee on Transport Engineering of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Domokos Esztergár-Kiss (Male): graduated as a computer-engineer from Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary, Budapest in 2011. Currently he is an assistant lecturer at BME. Since 2014 he is the international project coordinator of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering. His major field of research is the combination of transportation modes and optimization of multimodal travel chains. He is member of COST Action TU1004 (Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems) and TU1305 (Social Networks and Travel Behaviour). He was involved in several projects such as BusEye, Smarter Transport, TÁMOP research university project (Connecting transportation modes with telematics tools) and MoveCit (Engaging employers from public bodies in establishing sustainable mobility and mobility planning).
Mr. Tamás Mátrai (Male): received B.Sc. degree in civil engineering from BME and M.Sc. degree in Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems in the MIT-Portugal Program. He is a PhD Student at Department of Transport Technology and Economics. He was responsible for the international R&D activities at BKK as a senior project manager between 2011 and 2014. Tamás has extensive experience in cost‐benefit analyses, feasibility studies and macroscopic modelling for transport related development projects. He has routinely been involved in the scientific, financial and administrative management of R&D projects funded by the European Commission such as PROSPECT, FLOW, BestPaths, SOLUTIONS, NODES, TIDE, CH4LLENGE, STARS, Module CloseTo, PRESS4TRANSPORT, TECH-CLINIC SST, RESCUE, SU:GRE.