The Department of Road Transport (RT1) is a scientific and didactic unit which develops scientific research in the area of construction and design of solutions for the road transport industry, as well as diagnostics and technical evaluation of means of road transport.

We cooperate with many leading research centers such as AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Radom University of Technology, Lublin University of Technology, University of Warmia and Mazury and University of Zilina.

We are a partner for the automotive sector, mainly for automotive manufacturers, authorized car service centers, vehicle inspection stations and specialized workshops.

Scientific and research activities:

• Stationary and industrial research of vibrations and noise of gearboxes
• Support of design of gearboxes taking into account dynamic phenomena
• Research of dynamics of suspensions
• Stationary research of shock absorbers built from the vehicle (indicative) and built in (tunable systems of dynamic excitation)
• Research of traffic noise, simulation
• Studies of the combustion process in engines fuelled with gaseous fuels
• Studies of power supply systems of ZS engines
• Studies of the fuel consumption of motor vehicles operated in various road conditions
• Studies in the field of road traffic safety
• Development of computer applications in the field of reconstruction and analysis of road accidents
• Studies of the effectiveness of heat treatment processes using synthetic polymer solutions
• Analysis of plastic forming processes in the application to discontinuous media
• Analysis of plastic flow processes in coating profiling processes

Equipment:

• Apparatus for vibroacoustic testing of machines and vehicles, systems for contact and non-contact measurements (e.g. laser), systems for analysis in the time and frequency domain, e.g. multichannel SigLab system cooperating with PC in MATLAB environment, digital measurement and analysis systems from SVANTEK, NORSONIC, SONOPAN, etc.
• Test stands for gears in the circulating power system
• Test stand for injection pumps of ZS engines
• Test stands for suspension dynamics and shock absorbers built from the vehicle (indicator systems) and installed (tunable harmonic excitation systems)
• Test stands for homologation tests of gas fuel supply systems
• Signal analyser for electromagnetic compatibility tests
• Test stand for intake and exhaust systems of internal combustion engines
• Engine dynamometers with test engines, equipped with PIERBURG 5-gas exhaust gas analysers, AVL piston position markers, KEITHLEY data acquisition cards cooperating with ASYSTA 5 software environment and TARGETLINK 2.0 software
• Bosh FLA 203 chassis dynamometer dBASE system with DS 110 card
• Stand for testing ZI engine injectors
• Measurement apparatus for determining the course fuel consumption of motor vehicles in various road conditions.

The works of the employees of the Department of Road Transport include the following research areas:

• Stationary and industrial tests of vibrations and noise of gearboxes
• Support of design of gearboxes with consideration of dynamic phenomena
• Studies on the dynamics of automotive vehicle suspension systems
• Vehicle motion dynamics studies (GPS and CAN, OBD)
• Modal analysis of machine and vehicle elements
• Investigations of communication noise, effect of noise on man and surroundings
• Research in ergonomics and occupational safety of operators of means of transport
• Investigations of systems and elements of alternative fuel gas supply systems
• Simulation studies of combustion process in engines fuelled with gaseous fuels
• Investigations of thermal loads, thermal stresses and deformations of selected elements of internal combustion engines,
• Research in the field of Road Traffic Safety, research and opinions in the field of reconstruction and analysis of road accidents
• Vibro-acoustic diagnostics of rolling bearings and transmission systems, and repair methods for motor vehicles
• Analysis of damages and the degree of wear and tear of vehicle elements using vibroacoustic methods
• Research on tribological properties of materials used in machine tribological nodes
• Vehicle manufacturing technologies
• Welding processes in the construction and repair of motor vehicles, among others, using the micro-jet technique
• Environmental protection in transport
• Eco and electromobility
• Life cycle analysis LCA
• Car-scharing and sharing of means of transport