From 18 to 20 May, St Petersburg hosted the IV International Transport Festival SPbTransportFest. Like before, SPbGASU took an active part in this event.
At the Exhibition of Innovative Transport, SPbGASU together with LLC "GREEN-TRAK SPb" presented a new development - an electric buggy. It is equipped with a traction electrical installation with a total power of 60 kW (81 hp) and is capable of moving at speeds up to 80 km/h. The vehicle is equipped with all-wheel drive, the peculiarity of which is that the rotation of each wheel is carried out by its own independent electric motor.
Ksenia Pologova, Evgeny Trofimov, Vitaly Vasilyev and electric buggy
The group of buggy developers led by Sergey Vorobyev, Associate Professor at the Department of Transport Maintenance of the SPbGASU Faculty of Automobile and Road Building, included PhD students Oleg Nikiforov, Vitaly Vasilyev, Pavel Razumov, master student Evgeny Trofimov and bachelor student Ksenia Pologova. All of them received diplomas of the scientific and technical creative competition for schoolchildren and students "AutoEvolution-2023", which was held as part of the festival, winning in the nomination "Innovative transport systems" with a competitive work on the topic "Development of design solutions for electric power plants using the example of an electric buggy".
As Sergey Vorobyev said, in 2021, a scientific group of teachers, students and PhD students was created at the Faculty of Automobile and Road Building, which conducts research on electric transport, and also designs and assembles an electric vehicle as part of an interuniversity project to create a Crimea roadster.
The buggy was created in 2022 as a full-size model for studying the operation of the power drive, controllers, working out design issues. In 2023, it passed winter operational tests. After the exhibition, summer tests will take place. From September 2023 to May 2024, it is planned to transfer the electric power line directly to the Crimea roadster.
Bachelor's student Ivan Beshentsev won in the "My Chief Mentor" nomination of the "AutoEvolution-2023" competition. Ivan wrote an essay about his school mentor and spoke at the II International Children's Automobile Forum.
Teachers of our university took part in the business program of the festival.
Andrey Zazykin
At the session "New personnel for the transport industry: from a worker to a manager", Andrey Zazykin, Dean of the Faculty of Automobile and Road Building, made a presentation "School - College - University - FVE - Employer: Integration to ensure the development of human resources." The speaker spoke about the role of employers in career guidance and how to integrate the employer's potential into the educational process, shared information about the career guidance work at SPbGASU and invited the session participants to closer cooperation.
Igor Chernyaev
At an expanded meeting of the Committee for Monitoring and Forecasting the Labor Market and Professional Qualifications in the Automotive Industry of the Council for Professional Qualifications in the Automotive Industry (SPKA), Igor Chernyaev, Head of the Department of Transport Maintenance, made a report “Prospects for improving the system of professional standards in the field of road transport for 6– 8 skill levels. He proposed to describe the functions of engineering workers in the field of technical operation of road transport, related to the personnel of the fleet. In existing professional standards, these labor functions are not described at all. A draft professional standard "Specialist in the organization and conduct of maintenance and repair of motor vehicles" was presented, prepared with the participation of industry partners.
Aleksey Penkin
At the session “Expanding the use of environmentally friendly transport”, Aleksey Penkin, Associate Professor at the Department of Transport Maintenance, spoke about assessing the impact of alternative fuels on the ecology of road transport. He gave a comparative assessment of various alternative fuels, identified the most promising of them and described tools to expand their use as a motor fuel in road transport. In addition, Aleksey Penkin reported on the developments carried out by specialists of the SPbGASU Faculty of Automobile and Road Building in the field of new technological solutions, in particular, on the gas-diesel engine control system they created, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of using natural gas in transport diesel engines.