BME Researchers at Europe’s Largest Transportation Science Conference

BME researchers are among the authors of a dozen and a half papers at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference. The event, to be held in May in Budapest, is Europe’s largest and most prestigious transportation science conference. Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, senior research fellow at the Faculty of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering, plays a key role in the organization as program committee chair.

Organized by the European Commission and its professional partners, TRA brings together researchers, industry experts, decision-makers, and representatives of civil society to seek new solutions for sustainable and smart transportation. The theme of this year’s conference, “Re-Generation in Transport,” reflects the collective need for renewal in response to social, environmental, and technological challenges.

Its goal is to involve young thinkers and innovators in creating cleaner and more efficient transportation systems.

TRA has previously been held in Gothenburg (2006), Ljubljana (2008), Brussels (2010), Athens (2012), Paris (2014), Warsaw (2016), Vienna (2018), Helsinki (2020), Lisbon (2022), and Dublin (2024). The 11th event will take place at Hungexpo in Budapest.

The names of numerous BME staff members appear in the four-day program (May 18–21). Zsolt Szalay, head of the Department of Automotive Engineering, will be a participant in the panel discussion titled “From Research to the Implementation of Safety Measures in the Road Traffic System” on the first day. There are more than thirty authors among the authors of the papers:

• Arman Ranjbaran, Csaba Csiszár (professor, Department of Transport Technology and Economics) – Citizens’ Response to Micro-Mobility Infrastructure in 15-Minute Cities
• Tamás Márton Kazár (engineer), Roland Nagy, Árpád Török (senior research fellow), Zsombor Pethő (resarch fellow, Department of Automotive Technologies) – Testing Enhanced Emergency Braking in NLoS Scenarios: Comparing Radar and V2X Risk Estimation with Machine Learning
• Márton Korompay (PhD student), Dávid Földes (resarch fellow, Department of Transport Technology and Economics)– Does the temporal asymmetry of station traffic mirror urban functions? Evidence from Budapest bike-sharing
• Ognjen Bobičić, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss (senior research fellow, Department of Transport Technology and Economics) – Attitudinal Profiles of Potential Shared Cargo Bike Users in Budapest
• Tamás Attila Tomaschek (PhD student, Department of Automotive Technologies), Zsolt Szalay – Next Generation of Traffic Management
• Dorottya Szemere (PhD student), Vivien Surman (associate professor, Department of Management and Business Economics) – Towards User-Centred E-Scooter Integration: A Cluster-Based Attitudinal Analysis of Hungarian Riders
• Ognjen Bobičić, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss – Developing a Framework for Quantifying Micromobility Dissonance
• Xinzhe Zhang and Tamás Tettamanti (professor, Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems) – A Game-Theoretic Study on Ramp Merging Decisions Considering Macro- and Microscopic Vehicle Motion Characteristics
• Tamás Strommer, András Munkácsy, Dávid Földes – From Space to Place: Assessing Public Space Transformations through a Walkability Lens
• Dániel Hörcher (research fellow, Department of Transport Technology and Economics), Daniel Graham – A quantitative urban model for transport appraisal
• Tamás Attila Tomaschek, Róbert Péter Tóth, András Mihály Selmeczy, László Bokor, Gergely Attila Kovács, Dohyeon Kim, Seulbin Hong, Dongmin Lee, Seunghyeon Lee – Advancing C-ITS Deployments in Hungary: Paving the Way for Day 2+ Services
• András Rövid (senior research fellow), Mihály Csonthó (PhD student), Zsolt Vincze (assistant research fellow), Márton Cserni, Szabolcs Nagy (assistant research fellow, Department of Automotive Technologies), Zsolt Szalay – Cutting-edge Smart Road Section on the Hungarian M1-M7 Motorway: The Real-Time Digital Twin
• Sanggyun Kang, Minji Kim, Krisztián Bóna (associate professor, head of Department of Material Handling and Logistics Systems) – Evaluating Micro-Fulfillment Centers for Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Delivery: A Case Study of Budapest, Hungary
• Kinga Lőcsei-Tóth, Gergő Vass, Dávid Lajos Sárdi (assistant professor), Krisztián Bóna, Aletta Büki, Tamás Strang, Zalán Tiborc Uglik (trainee), Bálint Herbert (trainee, Department of Material Handling and Logistics Systems) – Selection of the best locations for micro-consolidation centers for a city logistics pilot in Budapest
• Tamás Strommer, András Munkácsy, Dávid Földes – Soft Measures with Strong Impact: Mobility Management for Sustainable Urban Transition
• Csaba Ferenc Szatmári, Szilárd Aradi (associate professor, Department of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems) – Potential applications of large language models in railway traffic control
• Daniel Imre Nagy, Tibor Princz-Jakovics (assistant professor, Department of Environmental Economics and Sustainability)– Leveraging the Business Canvas Modell for the Hungarian biomethane industry

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