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Design 21st century transport systems with us

Welcome to the website of the Competitive Public Transport project (17X1KC / 17X2KC), which is intended for bachelor's and master's students specializing in Logistics and Transport Process Management (LOG/LA).

Our common goal is to design public transport solutions that are truly attractive and able to compete effectively with individual car transport. We do not focus solely on theory – within the project, we address practical problems and challenges in urban, regional, and long-distance transport. We are part of the "family of tact projects" and specialize in designing suitable public transport services and related transport planning.

Our focus: From vision to timetable

Our project is based on comprehensive transport planning, and we understand that you want to make your mark in the area that is closest to your heart. You can therefore specialize in specific topics, but we emphasize understanding how they fit together as a whole.

The individual areas are logically interconnected:

  • Designing operational concepts and timetables: This is the core of our business. Are you familiar with the specific operational design that forms the basis of every high-quality transport system? Here you can focus on the detailed design of route planning, the creation of regular timetables, vehicle circulation planning, and ensuring high-quality connections at transport hubs.
  • Competitiveness and operational economics analysis: For a design to be attractive, it must make sense for both passengers and clients. In this area, you can focus on analyzing competitiveness compared to individual transport, assessing options in terms of operational economics, and implementing modern concepts that improve the efficiency of the entire system.
  • Data analysis and strategic planning materials: Strategic planning is part of all our activities. However, if you are interested in its data foundations, here you can focus on working with macroscopic transport models, demand analysis and forecasting, and defining long-term requirements for transport infrastructure development.

Why join us?

  • You will gain a comprehensive overview: Our goal is to prepare experts with a comprehensive understanding of transportation systems.
  • You will gain practical experience: We deal with real-life issues. We work closely with key players in the market – from integrated transport system organizers and consulting firms to transport operators and vehicle manufacturers.
  • You will kick-start your career: Demand for our graduates significantly exceeds supply. You will find employment in the public and private sectors, with transport operators, transport organizers, or in design and consulting firms.
  • You will broaden your horizons: We organize professional student expeditions and excursions where we learn about inspiring transport systems across Europe.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for active students who have:

  • Genuine interest in public transport.
  • Energy and enthusiasm to participate in its changes and improvements.
  • Willingness to apply your knowledge in practice and propose solutions that make sense.

How do we work?

We work in the form of regular monthly meetings, where we discuss current topics in the field, present procedures, and consult on work. Once a month, we also meet with colleagues from other "takt projects."

Are you interested in our project? Come and check out one of our meetings with no obligation. Just contact one of the project leaders or students.

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Our Team

Ing. Milan Kříž, Ph.D.

Research Group Leader, Assistant Professor CTU FTS K617

I mainly focus on transport demand modeling, but I am also familiar with public transport service design. In public transport projects, I strive to emphasize efficiency and meaningfulness, which sometimes earns me the hatred of train enthusiasts, but I still believe that my fight is important and I try to spread my convictions among students. Recently, my domain has become modeling transport demand in Prague and its surroundings.

17DOPM - Transportation Planning and Modeling
17DOPD - Transportation Planning and Modeling
17DOCH - Travel Behavior
17GEDS - Geography of Transport Systems
krizmil1@fd.cvut.cz

Ing. Jiří Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Research Group Leader, Assistant Professor CTU FTS K617

I am a native of Prague, but I enjoy traveling to other regions. I gained my professional expertise in urban and regional transport during a year of study at TU Dresden and subsequent practical experience, not only in the Olomouc and Zlín regions. As a client, I participated in the approval and implementation of projects such as the electrification of the Desná Railway and the modernization and electrification of the Olomouc - Uničov - Šumperk line to a speed of 160 km/h. I also strive to increase the competitiveness of railways through cooperation with railway infrastructure designers. In addition to the rhythm of train schedules, I also enjoy the rhythm of music.

17TEDL - Transport Technology and Logistics
17TVD - Technology of Public Transport
17Y1SK - Urban and Regional Rail Transport System
pospijir@fd.cvut.cz

Ing. Stanislav Metelka

Research Group Leader, Ph.D. Student CTU FTS K617

I am a local patriot from Olomouc and have been interested in urban transport since I was a child. As part of my LOG studies, I first focused on suburban buses in my hometown, and then, with six months of experience abroad in the train-tram Mecca of Karlsruhe, I brought this mode of transport to the center of Moravia. Outside of the faculty, you could also find me at the IDSK organization, where I co-created a concept for the development of rail transport in the Prague agglomeration. During internships in Dresden, I worked on the integration of zero-emission vehicles into regional transport, and in Vienna, I subsequently worked on rail transport in Lower Austria. Currently, at Stadler Praha, I am working on the approval of railway vehicles.

17TEDL - Transport Technology and Logistics
17TVD - Technology of Public Transport
metelsta@fd.cvut.cz

Our Students

Kateřina

Like most people, I was drawn to the KC project by my long-standing interest in public transport, which dates back to my early childhood. In addition to maps and Prague public transport networks, I later added railways, and all this was enhanced by my interest in rail transport in German-speaking countries, as I became very fond of their language and culture. This also led me to Erasmus in Berlin, where I spent the summer semester of 2024 and the winter semester of 2024/25. My bachelor's thesis focuses on the topic of train winging technology.

Michal

I've had a relationship with transport since I was a kid, when I used to draw graphs in my notebooks and go to watch trains. As a native of the "hole" in the Považie region, Dubnica nad Váhom, which has a very inadequately designed and uncompetitive public transport system, especially bus transport, I became interested in the possibilities of some kind of transport improvement here and elsewhere. So I decided to study transport, namely public transport technology. I hope that, based on the knowledge I will gain through my studies, I will one day be able to improve transport in my home country, which is what my bachelor's thesis is related to. Besides transport, I also enjoy politics, geography, unintelligibly fast speech or complaining about everything.

Štěpán

I come from the eastern Bohemian village of Kratonohy, which is located near Hradec Králové. Since childhood I have been interested in transport, especially public transport. But as time went by, my interest gradually turned more and more to regional transport, especially bus transport. I have also dealt with it in my bachelor's thesis and I would like to deal with it further in the future. My hobbies besides transport include travelling, photography and now and then some hiking or cycling.

Sebastian

I'm from Ricany, a town outside the big city. I have always been interested in transport, at the beginning mainly in rail transport. However, I don't live in a railway station, so this interest eventually extended to bus transport, and eventually I came to public transport as a whole. For some time now I have also been working in my home town council, where I am responsible for the strategic development of public transport. I like this work very much, but I want to take a break from the topic of small-town transport, so I decided to focus my bachelor thesis on night-time long-distance rail transport. Change is life. :) My hobbies include travelling around Europe (how else), enjoying good food, admiring architecture, but also hiking and skiing.

Matěj

I come from Uherské Hradiště. Since childhood I have been interested in transport, for example by looking at timetables or announcing train stops to fellow passengers. However, I only started thinking about studying transport in my first year at another university. My interest in public transport largely stems from my interest in geography, in short I enjoy coming up with new concepts in an area based on demand analysis. In my bachelor thesis on sister project periodic timetable I focused on long-distance bus transport between Jihlava and Hradec Králové. For inspriration on master studies I choose this project.

Martin

I'm originally from Bratislava, but my passion for transport drew me to Prague. My interest in transport goes back to my childhood, in which I spent long moments over traffic plans and maps, later transformed into the teenage "shoto" phase. I am currently working towards reaching the professional phase within the 17KC project. I believe that its beginning will be my bachelor's thesis, dedicated to the public transport system in the city of Pezinok, which I dare to call the largest detached housing estate in Bratislava. The thesis consists of an analysis of the current state and the subsequent modification of the bus lines to create, together with the railway, a competitive transport system.

Filip

I've lived in Prague all my life, so transport in this city is the closest thing to my heart. I am interested in the operation of all modes of public transport, whether it is road or rail. I also focus my attention on the future development of public transport not only in our capital city. In my bachelor's thesis, I focused on the possibilities of extending stops on signs on Prague Integrated Transport lines. My great hobby is also travelling abroad and in the Czech Republic.

Our partners

TU Drážďany
Leo Expres
PTV Group
IDSK - Integrovaná doprava Středočeského kraje
KIDSOK - Koordinátor Integrovaného dopravního systému Olomouckého kraje
Zlínský kraj
TSK Praha a.s.

Last defended Theses

Below we present an illustrative selection of theses from our students which cover the portfolio of problems solved within the student project.

Concept of Regional Public Transport Operations in Ilava County

Kyselica Michal; Bachelor theses; 2025

The topic of this paper is regional service of transport in Ilava county in Slovakia. Analytical part of the paper describes the region and its current service patterns, based on in-person passenger counting. Practical part of the paper´s goal is to design a solution for bus services in the region, as rail services are already systemic. The outcomes of the practical part are two variants of a regional bus line network based on regular connections between lines and clock-face schedulling.

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Bus lines in Pezinok

Šulek Martin; Bachelor theses; 2024

The thesis deals with the creation of a new concept of urban mass transit in Pezinok and the modification of regional bus lines. The first part contains an analysis of the current mass transit system in Pezinok. The second part contains an analysis of analogous mass transit systems in Europe, relevant strategic documents, and selected sources. The general principles of how to establish mass transit lines are elaborated by the analysis. The third part presents a proposal for a new concept of public bus transportation in Pezinok, utilizing the principles previously developed.

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Proposal of a new concept of regional bus transport in the area of Strakonice

Šrajer Štěpán; Bachelor theses; 2024

The subject of this thesis is to firstly analyse transport relations in the Strakonicko area and then to analyse the current level of traffic service of regional bus transport. On the basis of this analysis, the next step is to propose a new concept for regional bus transport in the area, which will use the principles of an integrated periodic timetable. At the end of thesis, the concept is evaluated in comparison with the current operation.

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Night passenger long-distance rail transport in Czechia and on adjacent routes

Macura Sebastian; Bachelor theses; 2024

This thesis deals with the issue of the operation of night sleeper trains in the Czech Republic and surrounding Europe. The general characteristics of this mode of transport and the possibility of its participation in the transport services of Europe are examined. The thesis responds to the development of sleeper trains in the near abroad. Furthermore, the development of sleeper connections connecting the Czech Republic with surrounding Europe is examined based on the identified demand through an adapted gravity model and analyzed boundary conditions to maximize the attractiveness of such connections. The main output of the thesis is a conceptual design of an effective operational concept of sleeping connections.

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Proposal of public transport concept in suburban area

Gregora Tomáš; Diploma theses; 2024

In this thesis, current trends in the development of settlement structures and their relationship to public space such as suburbanization and city of short distances were presented. The main factors found to support a well-functioning area were population density and the multifunctionality of urban spaces. It was demonstrated that the characteristics of spatial structures and the opportunities or obstacles to land use have varying impacts on transportation and its costs. To improve the perception of public transport in suburban areas, two alternative solutions for public transport service in the municipality of Chýně and its nearby surroundings were proposed after the model adjustment. The outcomes of travel behavior were compared between the variants and the overall benefit of the implemented measure was evaluated.

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Possibilities of extending request stops in the PIT

Šlapák, Filip; Bachelor theses; 2023

The subject of this thesis is to analyse the current state of request stops in Prague Integrated Transport and other public transport systems and on the basis of the analysis to assess the possibilities of implementing all request stops in the PIT. The thesis includes a description of the requirements that should be applied before implementation of this system and also the positive and negative impacts of the extension of request stops.

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New urban bus service concept for Příbram

Marášková, Iveta, Bc.; Diploma theses; 2023

The subject of the thesis is to create a new proposal for the operational concept of urban bus service in the city of Příbram. New service concept for Příbram is based on an analysis of its current state and from defined sources and destinations of commuting. Subsequently, a line guidance is specified and its operational and economic demands.

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Verification of the possibility of introducing a zone-relational IDZK tariff

Havel, Dominik, Bc.; Diploma theses; 2023

This thesis deals with the description of the existing zone-relational tariffs in Czechia and the proposal of the zone-relational tariff for the Zlín Region Integrated Transport. Innovative procedures in the tariff distance matrix calculation are checked, and the method of determining the permitted journey is also qualified. A price list and an evaluation of its impact on revenues are included in the thesis. Due attention is paid to the further development of the ticket offer regarding passengers who use public transport regularly, but not on a daily basis.

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Zonal timetable on railways Prague – Lysá nad Labem – Kolín / Mladá Boleslav

Heřmanová, Zuzana, Bc.; Diploma theses; 2023

The subject of the thesis is the design of the operational concept on the lines Prague – Lysá nad Labem – Kolín / Mladá Boleslav using a zonal timetable. In the first part, the definition of the zone timetable and other types of timetables is presented. In the following section, the current operational concept on these lines is examined and described in detail. The third part includes an analysis of the strategic documents with a focus on the requirements of the transport authority that are relevant to the lines in question. The fourth part contains an analysis of the traffic demand in terms of the traffic survey carried out on the lines and in terms of the traffic relations established from a statistical source. In the next section, operational concepts are proposed. In the last part, all options are evaluated and then one design option is selected and recommended.

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