EDITOR’S WORD

 

Transport Systems was established at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev in connection with the development of scientific research in the field of creation, safe and efficient operation of transport systems for various purposes:

• ground transport and technological machines and complexes;

• technology of transport processes and road infrastructure;

• shipbuilding;

• ocean engineering and system engineering of marine infrastructure;

• aircraft and helicopter construction;

• pipeline transport (gas and oil pipelines and gas storage facilities).

 

The intensification of scientific research was facilitated by the creation of the educational and scientific Institute of Transport Systems (ITS) on the basis of Automobile Institute (AMI) and the Faculty of Marine and Aeronautical Engineering (FMAE) in 2013. ITS includes the following departments:

• Automobiles and tractors;
• Automobile transport;
• Aero-hydrodynamics, strength of machines and strength of materials;
• Wheeled armoured fighting vehicles (basic department of NNSTU in Military Engineering Center LLC);
• Higher mathematics;
• Engineering graphics;
• Shipbuilding and aeronautical engineering;
• Design and operation of gas and oil pipelines and gas and oil storage facilities (basic department of NNSTU in Giprogaztsentr JSC);
• Creating a product in the automotive industry (basic department of NNSTU in United Engineering Center LLC);
• Construction and road machinery;
• Power plants and heat engines.

 

The Institute of Transport Systems includes the following training centers and laboratories:

• Automobile center of European educational technologies Eurotech;
• Laboratory  Experimental basin;
• Laboratory Aerodynamics and pneumatic drive;
• Yacht school Parus (Sail);
• MSC.Software Competence Center.

 

Scientific and practical activities of the majority of higher-education teaching personnel are carried out in the following scientific and expert departments of ITS:

• Scientific Research Laboratory of Transport Intelligent Systems;
• Center for Collective Use Transport Systems;
• Scientific and Research Laboratory of Transport Vehicles and Transport Technological Complexes;
• Scientific and Educational Center Transport;
• Center for Road Traffic Safety and Technical Expertise;
• Center for Vehicle Diagnostics and Service;
• Experimental Design Bureau Led-NN;
• Laboratory for the Development of Arctic and Inland Waterways of Russia;
• Basic Laboratory of Experimental Mechanics of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

Small innovative enterprises co-founded by NNSTU (research and production company Diagnosis and Certification of Transport LLC, Teplomer LLC and Intech LLC) are working actively. Along with the traditional ones, new directions and methods of scientific research are being implemented, the material base is being updated, the volume of R&D funding is increasing due to participation in federal and regional target programs and orders from the enterprises of the real sector of the economy, the number of young scientists and postgraduates participating in R&D is growing.

 

Creative teams with the participation of young scientists, postgraduates and students are carrying out scientific projects within the framework of the Federal Targeted Programme for Research and Development in Priority Areas of Advancement of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014-2020. Current research is being carried out in the field of development of new multipurpose vehicles with various types of propulsion units and power systems, with intelligent control systems, including vehicles which can be used in the North and the Arctic shelf:

• coastal zone monitoring and prediction of marine natural disasters, development of an autonomous mobile robotic complex (AMRС);
• development of a multifunctional all-terrain vehicle equipped with intelligent wheel drive propulsion units having an increased level of energy efficiency and improved fuel efficiency;
• research, development and creation of an amphibious all-terrain vehicle with a wheel arrangement of 8x8 and a highly ecological propulsion unit for life support in the North;
• research, development and creation of a range of devices for automatic and command control of multistage transmission of prospective trucks and buses using adaptive microprocessor systems that provide optimum performance of vehicles;
• research of methods and algorithms for control and optimal planning of actions of a group of vehicles in the field of creation of autonomous intellectual control systems for mobile objects of ground and above-water basing that provide coordinated actions during evacuation and rescue operations in difficult navigation conditions;
• development of a model range of high-performance grinding machines with innovative type of microturbines for shipbuilding, aeronautical and other engineering industries;
• creation of a collective universal rescue device of a new type with the function of unmanned control for the evacuation of personnel in emergency situations of natural and man-made character in the Arctic shelf.

 

Within the Strategic Development Program of NNSTU the Engineering Center Automobile construction was established in 2013. It unites several structural subdivisions of NNSTU, owns a developed material base that allows conducting full-scale tests of vehicles, their parts, units and assemblies, performing computer modeling of physical processes, and developing technical documentation. The Center’s team is formed from the qualified ITS staff who have practical experience in R&D activities requested by enterprises of the real sector of the economy. The creative team of the Engineering Center Automobile construction works for the implementation of complex projects for the creation of high-tech industries (in the framework of the Russian Federation Government Decree No. 218). In cooperation with GAZ Automobile Plant LLC, United Engineering Center LLC and the consortium of companies NLR, RDW, ARN and UTwente University from the Kingdom of the Netherlands implemented a comprehensive project “Creation of high-tech production of eco-friendly resource-saving light commercial vehicles” in 2013-2015. In 2016-2017 together with GAZ Automobile Plant LLC was carried out another large-scale complex project “Creation of a high-tech production of a range of commercial GAZ cars equipped with intelligent driver assistance systems”.

 

Thus, the creation of a new scientific journal in the field of transport system research increases the publication activity of ITS staff and reaches international recognition of the ongoing research results.

The editorial board of Transport Systems welcomes educational institutions, scientific organizations and their employees interested in publishing their scientific and scientific-practical results of the research carried out on the topics of the journal’s headings.

 

 

 

 

Deputy Chief Editor,

Director of the Institute of Transport Systems of NNSTU named after R.E. Alekseev,

Anatoly Mikhailovich Groshev