Department of Roads

The Department of Roads prepares specialists in road, railway, and urban infrastructure engineering.

Address: Linkmenų St. 28, LT-08217 Vilnius, Lithuania Phone: +370 5 274 4708 Internal phone: 9822 Email: apkl@vilniustech.lt

Research areas

Academic staff of the Department of Roads conduct a variety of research activities.

Professors’ research

Prof. Dr. Donatas Čygas

Research area: Traffic safety research and analysis, intelligent transport systems, and new technologies for road construction, repair, and maintenance.

Prof. Dr. Alfredas Laurinavičius

Research area: Road winter maintenance and concrete pavements.

Prof. Dr. Audrius Vaitkus

Research area: Road network planning and road design, pavement structures, mechanistic–empirical modelling of pavement structures, earthworks, technical regulation in the road sector, and traffic safety.

Professor in partnership Assoc Prof. Dr. Dainius Miškinis

Research area: Road asset management, investment projects, and their evaluation.
Associate professors’ research

Assoc Prof. Dr. Lina Bertulienė

Research area: Transport systems and transport infrastructure.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Vilma Jasiūnienė

Research area: Road traffic safety, traffic accident forecasting methods, road network infrastructure safety management, and traffic safety improvement measures and their evaluation.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Vytautas Grigonis

Research area: Traffic flow modelling and justification of urban transport solutions.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Rita Kleizienė

Research area: Assessment of road construction materials and the life cycle (condition) of road infrastructure.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Viktoras Vorobjovas

Research area: Road construction materials and technologies, and materials and technologies used for road maintenance.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė

Research area: Urban public transport planning, sustainable mobility, urban traffic flow planning, and micromobility.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Edita Šarkienė

Research area: Sustainable urban development and building information modelling (BIM).

Assoc Prof. in partnership Algirdas Michelkevičius

Research area: Planning and design of railway tracks and stations, assessment of railway track parameters for compliance with TSIs, and railway traffic safety.

Assoc Prof. in partnership Svetlana Daškevič

Research area: Planning and design of railway tracks and stations.
Assistants’ research

Dr. Laura Gavėnienė

Research area: Road traffic safety, engineering and intelligent traffic safety improvement measures, and their evaluation.

Dr. Dovydas Skrodenis

Research area: Traffic safety, black spot analysis, traffic management, traffic flow modelling, and sustainable mobility.

Dr. Aja Tumavičė

Research area: Road safety audits, traffic safety assessments, construction law, and road planning.

Dr. Ovidijus Šernas

Research area: Road construction materials, their testing methods, the use of recycled materials in road construction, and the development of innovative materials.
Lecturers’ research

Martynas Karbočius

Research area: Studies of pavement structure behaviour and degradation, mechanistic–empirical modelling of pavement structures, and non-destructive testing methods for pavement structures.

Jūratė Ryliškė

Research area: Road and street design and modelling (BIM), traffic safety assessment, and application of software tools.

Partners

Department of Roads maintains active cooperation with social and business partners.

Department Staff

Staff of the Department of Roads are researchers, engineers, and experts in the field of transport infrastructure who carry out high-level scientific research.