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7.4. PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP

Presentation of the RI group
The research platform is a higher education and research institution arrangement focusing on basic and applied research
in line with a major national industrial development objective. The main overarching activities of the platform include
research on autonomous vehicles and transportation systems and their preparation for use, as well as the integration of
the relevant knowledge into higher education training programmes to ensure highly qualified future professionals. The
scope of activities extends to the questions of roadway infrastructure development, the clarification of the legal issues
relating to the design, testing and use of autonomous vehicles, participation in standardisation tasks, as well as interna-
tional relations and economic-diplomatic representation.

National coordinator of the RI group: Background information
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Auto- The vehicle and transportation engineering platform is coordi-
motive Technologies nated by BME. RECAR, a cooperative inter-university research
arrangement, also operates under the guidance of the coordinator.
Contact: Zsolt Szalay The platform consists of the following organised research entities:
Email: zsolt.szalay@gjt.bme.hu 1. Autonomous Vehicles and Transport Mobility Research Plat-
Website: http://www.gjt.bme.hu/ form, BME
2. Automotive Research Platform of Excellence, SZE JKK
Partners: BME Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle 3. Platform for Autonomous Vehicles Testing
Systems; BME Department of Automation and Applied Informatics; BME 4. Research and Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques,
Vehicle Communication Research Laboratory; BME Department of Net- MTA SZTAKI
worked Systems and Services; SZE Research Centre of Vehicle Industry, 5. Research on the control techniques of large, complex and dis-
Győr; HAS Centre of Excellence in Vehicle Technology Research (J3K), tributed systems, MTA SZTAKI
Győr; MTA SZTAKI; ELTE; SZTE; PPKE; PE, Veszprém The above research platforms cover nearly all relevant tasks, and
involve stakeholder research institutions in their work. The pri-
ESFRI connection: None mary, defining relations are those between the above five platforms.
A strategic committee consisting of the heads of the platforms is
Status of the RI group: operating entities, with partitions under design and responsible for research coordination and for adopting a common
implementation research strategy. The coordinator participates in international
projects, and in the EU GEAR2030 initiatives. Notably, trilateral
university collaborations are successful between Austria, Slovenia
and Hungary (Graz, Maribor, Budapest) in the topic of Cooper-
ative Autonomous Vehicles.

Aim of the RI group
The group aims to coordinate and harmonise the tasks of domestic
research centres in the field of vehicle and transportation engineer-
ing, and to promote the objectives through common project tar-
gets and complementary task assignment.

Status of the RI group:
The group’s current infrastructure relies on the partner institutions’
existing research infrastructures, which in turn demands continu-
ous development to respond to the constantly and rapidly chang-
ing needs of the area.

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