Department of Transport Structures

Department of Transport Structures provides teaching of the bachelor and master study programme. Successful graduates can continue in doctoral study programme Transport Means and Infrastructure.

In the scope of the specialized subjects of the Transport Structures study programme, we share with students our knowledge about design, assessment and evaluation of transport structures, mostly bridge and tunnel structures, roads, railways (incl. urban), foundation engineering, and others. Except for vocationally focused subjects, necessary theoretically and experimentally focused subjects, like Structural Statics, Flexibility and Strength, Finite Element Method, Geotechnics, Geology, and Experimental Analysis, are an integral part of the education.

The department’s focus can be divided into the following areas:

Highway engineering
Railway engineering
Bridge structures
Geotechnics and foundation engineering
Structural mechanics

1993 Foundation of the Department of Transport Infrastructure on the occasion of the establishment of the Faculty of Transport Engineering (FTE), originally named Jan Perner Transport Faculty.

1994 Institute of Chemical Technology, of which FTE and thus the Department of Transport Infrastructure was an integral part, adopted the new name of University of Pardubice.

1998 Split of originally one Department of Transport Infrastructure into two successor departments: Department of Transport Infrastructure and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Signalling in Transport.

2002 Upon agreement of the Accreditation Committee of the Czech Republic, so called structured studies (bachelor and follow-up master study programme) began to come into use.

2008 Accreditation of the new study programme of Civil Engineering with the study field of Transport Structures and change of the name of the department into Department of Transport Structures.

2013 Relocation of laboratories of the Department of Transport Structures into newly opened Educational and Research Centre in Transport. This enabled their expansion, addition of specialized instruments and use of modern facilities.

2019 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport Structures.

2023 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport Constructions.

2025 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport and Structural Engineering.

“Thanks to the Transport Structures studies, I got a good grasp of all branches in the field; across all phases from design to realization. Moreover, I liked the freedom of choice in study specialization.”

Ing. Aleš Bělík

Hrochostroj a.s. member of the enteria a.s. group, business manager

„Studies of Transport Structures gave me not only the needed expertise, but more importantly the ‚ability to cope‘. Thanks to the studies, I was able to reach further levels in professional education, too.“

Ing. Jindra Flanderková

Construction Supervisor of Road Structures

“I was ready for work and life after graduation at the Department of Transport Structures. I am looking forward to collaboration with every other graduate that joins our group.”

Ing. Ondřej Joska

Chairman of the Board at ventio holding a.s.

“Education in Transport Structures is like a vector. Under given origin, it gives magnitude and direction to your life. With it, you have the privilege of not only experiencing journeys – but building the roads that make them possible.”

Ing. Šárka Kubcová

Technické služby Hradec Králové, Deputy Director for Administration of Streets, Public Lighting and Traffic Lights

“Studies at the Faculty of Transport Engineering laid good foundations for the future realization of transport structures.”

Ing. Martin Lukeš

SWIETELSKY stavební s.r.o., Director of Pardubice Area

“We were told at the beginning we will be the elite at the end. I still doubt to a certain extent (self-criticism is important), but confrontation with reality persuades me we are definitely above the average.”

Ing. Vojtěch Mareš

ŘSD ČR Pardubice Office, Investments Executive at Division of Construction

“Thanks to the studies at the Faculty of Transport Engineering in Pardubice, I could be involved in the design phase of important transport structures in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.”

Ing. Václav Marvan

KOMOVIA s.r.o., Executive Director

“I liked the comprehensiveness of the department, high expertise of lecturers and our great party of schoolmates, too. Everyone focused on something else out of transport structures after the studies. I collaborate with many of them even now and we happen to meet at construction sites.”

Ing. Luboš Netolický

Chládek a Tintěra Pardubice a.s., construction manager – bridges

“I gained comprehensive information on the area of transport and transport structures, but more importantly, I constantly trained stress resistance as for the fact that something was not as it was theoretically supposed to be.”

Ing. Michal Šobr

PRODIN a.s., DRAWINGS s.r.o., Railway Structures Designer

“The Faculty of Transport Engineering helped me get general knowledge in realization of structures.”

Ing. Tomáš Tucauer

Tractebel engineering a.s., Project Leader: Manages design activities of industrial projects

“Studies encouraged my interest in road structures and gave me opportunity to know where to look when searching for something in standards or in technical regulations.”

Ing. Jaroslav Vaňásek

Regional Authority of Hradec Králové Region, Department of Transport and Road Management Officer

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