Guarantor, team, contact

Doc. PhDr. Matúš Šucha, PhD., matus.sucha@upol.cz, +420 777 597 665
Prof. Ralf Risser
Mgr. Lucie Viktorová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Lucie Hartmannová
Mgr. Elisabeta Drimlová
Mgr. Mikuláš Toman
Ing. Anton Pashkievich, PhD.

Research, grants

• ETA Programme of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic; Complex physiological monitoring of the driver with respect to psychological factors affecting driving behaviour.
• ETA Programme of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic; Human and traffic safety in the development of lighting technologies.
• Implementation of the public contract “Preparations of a battery of psychodiagnostic tests for the SŽDC pre-employment psychological screening” of the contracting authority Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC) – contract research.
• Public contract of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic: Influence of Advertising Devices on Road Safety
• Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Omega Programme; Driver Adaptation on Driving Assistance Systems in the Vehicle.
• EU COST TU 1105 project: NVH analysis techniques for design and optimization of hybrid and electric vehicles.
• Project of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (Security research): Social-psychology analysis of drivers with 12 demerit points, and the development of fitness to drive assessment methodology.
• EU COST TU 1103 project:  Operation and safety of tramways in interaction with public space.
• Project of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: The updating of the transport psychological examination methodology.

Publications

• Risser, R. & Šucha, M. (2020). StartWalking! How to Boost Sustainable Mode Choice—Psychological Measures to Support a Shift from Individual Car Use to More Sustainable Traffic Modes, Sustainability, 12(leden 2020), 1-13.
• Risser, R., & Šucha, M. (2020). Psychological Perspectives on Walking: Interventions for Achieving Change. Routledge.
• Šucha, M., Dostál, D., Dominik, T. (2019). Dotazník řidičského chování DBQ u Českých řidičů, CESKOSLOVENSKA PSYCHOLOGIE, 63(3), 265-279.
• Šucha, M. (2019). Proč se v dopravě chováme tak, jak se chováme?. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny.
• Šucha, M., Viktorová, L., Risser, R. (2019). Can an Experience with No Car Use Change Future Mode Choice Behavior?, Sustainability, 11(17), 1-22.
• Del Valle, C., Šucha, M. (2019). Effects of alcohol and perceived controllability in optimistic offender drivers, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 64(July 2019), 58-69.
• Viktorová, L. & Šucha, M. (2018). Learning about advanced driver assistance systems – The case of ACC and FCW in a sample of Czech drivers, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
• Šucha, M. , Dostál, D. & Risser, R. (2017). Pedestrian-driver communication and decision strategies at marked crossings, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 102C(102/C), 41-50.

Relevance to PhD programme type

• Traffic psychology