At the Smart 50 Award ceremony as part of the Smart Cities Connect conference in Denver, Colorado, United States, held on April 1, 2019. The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences received an award for a project in the field of smart cities. Every year, the award is given to the 50 best projects in the world in the field of smart cities.
The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences won the Horizon award for the project Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of the City of Sisak (SUMP Sisak). The Horizon category encompasses fundamental and innovative solutions that serve as an example for the development of future smart city projects. The aim of the Sisak SUMP was to provide citizens with better mobility and greater traffic safety, as well as to ensure economic development and better environmental protection.
The project managers were Professor Davor Brčić, PhD and Assistant Professor Marko Šoštarić, PhD.
The International Road Federation award committee has selected the Research Team of the Institute for Traffic Signalization of the Faculty of Transport Sciences, University of Zagreb project entitled “Application of RFID Technology for Automatic Updating of Traffic Signs Database Inventory” in the category Quality Management, as the winning project for the Global Road Achievement Award 2018 (GRAA).
This project is the result of the two-year creation of the Croatian state roads traffic signs database, which took place from 2015 to 2017, so that the pilot project of applying RFID technology for automatic updating of the traffic sign database could start at the beginning of 2018. The main objective of the project was to enable more efficient and faster checking and updating of the traffic signs database. For this purpose, the vehicle used for standard road patrol is equipped with an RFID reader, antennas, and a laptop, and during a normal drive time, RFID "tags" data is read from the signs, and thus their database is automatically updated. The aim is to ensure the adequate quality of traffic signs needed for the road users while at the same time optimizing activities and maintenance costs.
The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences team developed the project of using RFID technology to automatically update the traffic signs database in cooperation with HRVATSKE CESTE D.O.O., as a national company for the management, construction and maintenance of state roads, and SMART VIEW D.O.O. company from Zagreb.
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At the annual e-Infrastructure Days - HEART OF 2021 conference held on 28 and 29 April 2021, as a part of the thematic block Information and Data in Science, a recognition ceremony was held for repositories in Digital Academic Archives and Repositories (DABAR) to promote open access. One of the recipients of the award for the promotion of open access is the Repository of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Assistant Professor Marko Ševrović and his team won the gold medal at the international innovation exhibition Arca 2020 for the innovation entitled "Identifying Road Risk by using Artificial Intelligence".
Assistant Professor Marko Ševrović, PhD and his team won the bronze medal at the international innovation exhibition Arca 2018 for the innovation entitled "DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT COOPERATIVE ROAD STATION".
The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences and the company RŽV Čakovec won the gold medal at the international innovation fair iENA 2017 for the innovation "SELF PROP RAIL / Self-propelled bulk cargo wagon".
Professor Tonči Carić, PhD and his team won the gold medal at the international innovation exhibition Arca 2015 for innovation entitled "Route Optimization System in a Dynamic Transport Environment (SORDITO)".
EAI Fellows Class of 2020 comprises 0.1% of individuals who have achieved the best EAI index values among the entire EAI community in the calendar year 2019, securing them an objective and transparent nomination for outstanding achievements in their technical fields according to the assessment of EAI community members around the world.
Head of the Department of Information and Communication Traffic, Professor Dragan Peraković, PhD and the Head of the Department for Information Communication Systems and Networks, Assistant Professor Marko Periša, PhD, are among 227 individuals who have achieved the best EAI index values.
On February 26, 2020, Assistant Professor Marko Ševrović, PhD and Assistant Professor Rajko Horvat, PhD received the recognition of the Safety in Traffic Association for their unique personal contribution to increasing road safety in their field of work and their local communities, as well as for the affirmation of the work and activities of the Association.
