Air Transport Operations
Research on airline operations, scheduling and network planning.
Our team focuses on a broad spectrum of topics related to air transport, aviation operations, human factors, safety, and modern aerospace technologies. In addition to research activities, the team is actively involved in project-based education, where students participate in solving practical and research-oriented tasks connected with real-world aviation and transportation problems. The scope of activities covers both operational and economic aspects of aviation, including areas such as alternative fuels, meteorology and space weather, operational documentation, aviation training, optimization methods, aviation economics and law, cargo air transport, interoperability, environmental impacts of aviation, flight automation, commercial air transport procedures, air ambulance operations, general aviation, aerial work, unmanned aircraft systems, and emerging space technologies. The team also addresses highly specialized technical and operational topics, ranging from aircraft system integration and operational procedures to the implementation of new technologies in specific aircraft types or operational environments. The activities combine theoretical, experimental, and applied approaches, including simulation, data analysis, human-technology interaction, and safety-oriented system thinking. The overall focus is intentionally broad and interdisciplinary, allowing the team to address both general future-oriented aviation challenges and highly specific operational or technical problems originating from industry practice and academic research.
Team Members
Selected Projects
Aviation immunity to GNSS and ADS-B spoofed signals
The aim is to assess and improve the resilience of the Czech aviation infrastructure against GNSS signal spoofing. GNSS signal spoofing refers to the illegal spoofing of a false navigation signal on frequencies intended for satellite navigation. Depending on the severity, this false signal may either completely change the receivers calculated position or lead to a loss of time synchronization and the inability to continue using the system. The project aims to test and analyze the resilience of the ground-based air traffic control infrastructure toward GNSS spoofing, describe suitable procedures to test the resilience against spoofing, and propose a possible method of spoofing detection using a combination of surveillance systems, in particular ADS-B.
Dynamic charging
n the medium and long term, road freight transport has to deal with the challenges of the decarbonization process.Especially in the case of long-distance heavy transport, the technical, technological, and economic feasibility of introducing the concept of dynamic charging must be assessed, even with the expected development of megawatt charging technology for large electric vehicles.Therefore, the project aims to assess the issues and propose solutions for decarbonizing the sector.The project is also expected to consider and evaluate, among other things, developments in the field of large batteries (including the possible development of so-called solid electrolyte batteries).The project is in line with measure E21 of the 2020 update of the National Action Plan for Clean Mobility (NAP CM).
Aviation protection against low-energy lasers
The primary goal of the project is to design the structure of technical equipment with an associated algorithmic base and experimentally verify the possibilities of using an optoelectronic system for detection and localization of low-power laser sources, which threaten air safety. The device will be tailor-made for the application guarantor (CZ Police). Another goal is to verify the possibility of using this system for UAS detection so that it can be connected to the system of the current infrastructure administrator. Such a system can be placed in the vicinity of any airport and will cover not only the RWY itself but also the area of arrival and departure routes (STAR, SID), where the aircraft are most vulnerable, which will be processed as an extension of additional system functionality.