According to scientific-research and teaching activity The Institute of Transport is divided into four institutes: The Department of Transport and Process Equipment, The Department of Transport Equipment, The Department of Transport Technology and The Department of Air Transport.
The Institute of Transport provides teaching activity in the study branches “Transport Equipment and Technology”, “Transport Machines and Material Handling”, “Air Transport Technology”, “The Technology of Operating Air Equipment” and “The Technology of Maintaining Air Equipment” in bachelor study programmes and teaching activity in the branch “Transport Equipment and Technology” and “Design and Process Engineering” in a follow-up masters study programme and a further doctoral study in the branch “Transport and Handling Equipment”.
In the framework of the bachelor study programme “Air Transport Technology” The Department of Air Transport provides students teaching in the framework of the study branch “The Technology of Maintaining Air Equipment” basic training for acquiring a license which authorizes the holder to release airplanes and their components into operation in the terms of their maintenance. In the framework of the study branch “The Technology of Operating Air Equipment” it provides students theoretical training in the framework of acquiring the necessary combination of licences and qualifications, which authorize a holder to pilot aircraft in commercial air transport. In the framework of the study branch “Air Transport Technology” it provides students an operational-economic base with an emphasis on the problems of air transport safety and environmental protection. The Institute closely co-operates with the Mining-Geology Faculty and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and provides teaching for them at the same time.
The department is oriented on the area of lifting, transporting and storage systems of loose materials, for example lifts, cranes, various types of conveyors and suppliers. An individual chapter is made up of the research of the technology of transport and storage of loose materials from the point of view of measuring and evaluating their mechanical-physical properties (the friction, granularmetric and morphological properties of bulk materials) and their changes in the course of production, transport or storage processes, the research of the legality of moving particles through areas, supplier flow breakdowns, among which is possible to rank arching, smokestacking, and other regimes of loose material flow, pressure pulsation, etc.
Scientific-research activity is oriented on solving the problems of the dynamics of movement transport means, the reliability of transport means and transport systems and on logistic system projects. Part of The Department of Transport Equipment is also the Laboratory of Rail Transport and the Laboratory of Road Vehicles. Institute staff share in the completion of a whole number of projects in the framework of operational programmes financed by EU sources and co-operate in work practice (Škoda Transportation Plzeň, Vagónka Vítkovice, MSV Elektronika, Ltd., Studénka, TÜV SÜD, Ltd., Czech Republic Railway Inspection, Police of the Czech Republic). They also co-operate in development with academic workplaces, especially with the Transport Faculty of Jan Perner in Pardubice and with other educational institutes.