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This contribution presents activities of Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications that support increase of qualification and requalification of Transport Department employees. During its nearly 55-year existence, the faculty has always been cooperating consistently with practice, transport enterprises and institutions of road, railway, air and water transport. The faculty...
The contribution will be dedicated to present condition of professional education for transportation sector in Slovakia, mainly engineering education and to tendencies in curricula related to changes of environment, policy, markets etc. Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications at the University of Žilina, is the only university specializing in manager preparation in the transportation...
The paper addresses selected problems of marine traffic risk modelling, in respect to collision and grounding probability modelling. Two original models are presented, and a case study regarding ships navigating in selected areas of Gulf of Finland in ice free conditions is putting forward. Probability of vessel colliding is assessed by means of Minimum Distance To Collision (MDTC) based model. The...
Working life in Europe is changing at an ever-increasing speed, which creates new risk areas and changes the way that occupational safety and health needs to be managed. Changes in the structure of work market as well as changes in people’s activities affect the health of the Polish society. The article presents the indicators of accident at work rate and the main threat groups in Transportation and...
Liberalization and globalization - as the processes determining the contemporary socio-economic development - have a significant impact on the growth of international links and contacts worldwide and, consequently, on current and future scenarios for mobility of people and transport of goods. The risen volume and changed structure of transport needs require new ways to achieve them. Another challenges...
Growing national market and the increase in trade and marketing of products causes and forces the continuous development of transport services, which enable efficient execution of tasks and progress of other sectors of the economy. The development of transport and forwarding industry in our country stood mainly under the influence of global changes in the structures of the TSL sector, but also in...
Land transportation is not well organized in Haïti. Major cities are experiencing tough situations of congestion on days of intense activities and safety is a big concern as accidents usually cause great number of casualties. Also, vehicles are very pollutant and consume a lot of fuel. The existing network of national roads offers a possibility of developing intercity transport telematics, and its...
Subjective frame of mind, observations and expectations of entrepreneurs remain an important factor of business activity. They influence present business activity as well as future decisions of entrepreneurs. One of the methods of business tendencies’ measurement, which allows for considering of general mood and expectations, is a business condition test. In Poland, regular monthly business tendencies’...
Subjective frame of mind, observations and expectations of entrepreneurs remain an important factor of business activity. They influence present business activity as well as future decisions of entrepreneurs. One of the methods of business tendencies' measurement, which allows for considering of general mood and expectations, is a business condition test. In Poland, regular monthly business tendencies'...
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