Leonard Vrana

CDV - Transport Research Centre is the only scientific research public institution under the Czech Ministry of Transport. CDV was established in 1992 on the base of the Czech parts of former federal Transport Research Institute (est. 1954). With its research focus, CDV covers key needs of transport development in the Czech Republic at national, regional and local levels. CDV deals with key fields such as road safety, technology of construction, maintenance, repairs and reconstruction of transport infrastructure, including geotechnical aspects and diagnostics of transport structures. Furthermore, it deals with impacts of transport and its infrastructure on the environment, transport economics, multimodal transport, traffic psychology, traffic education, transport demand modelling, management systems, geographic information systems, check-in and parking systems and telematic systems. CDV focuses on smart mobility and new technologies such as autonomous systems, hyperloop and other challenges of transport for the future.