Prof. Gnap is the head of the Department of Road and Urban Transport, which guarantees higher education in the study programs "Road Transport", "Transport Services in Passenger Transport", "Forwarding and Logistics" and the new study program "Expertise in Road Transport". He is currently a member of the Sector Council of Transport, Logistics, Postal Services, whose activities contributed to the establishment of the National System of Occupations in the Slovak Republic and a member of the working group for programming in the transport sector in the 2021-2027 programming period. He closely cooperates with professional practice with the Association of Logistics and Freight Forwarding of the Slovak Republic, where he is a member of the Board of Directors on behalf of associate members and the chairman of the education and publishing section. He also cooperates with the Bus Transport Association, ČESMAD Slovakia - the association of road transport operators of the Slovak Republic. He is a responsible solver of several research projects and professional studies in the field of public transport, especially plans of transport services of cities and regions, but also plans of sustainable mobility. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of domestic and foreign scientific and professional journals and a member of the scientific boards of international conferences in the field of transport and logistics. He has extensive scientific and professional publishing activities, including impact journals in internationally recognized databases.

personal information

Full Name
prof. Ing. Jozef Gnap, PhD.
Address
University of Žilina, Faculty of operation and economics of transport and communications, Department of road and urban transport, Univerzitná 8215/1, SK- 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
E-mail
jozef.gnap@fpedas.uniza.sk
Phone
+421 41 513 35 00

Memberships and other positions

  • guarantor of bachelor's, engineering and doctoral studies: 8.2.1Transport services
  • Chairman of the Commission for Doctoral Studies: 8.2.1Transport Services
  • Member of the Joint Departmental Committee for Doctoral Studies in Transport Engineering and Technology, University of Pardubice, Jan Perner Faculty, Czech Republic
  • Chairman of the examination commission for professional examinations of experts from the section of Transport, Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
  • member of the sector council for transport, logistics, postal services for the national project National System of Occupations in the Slovak Republic
  • Member of the Commission for DIN (DE) 2008, Germany for the amendment of the EN for securing loads in road transport
  • Member of the Working Group for Programming in the Transport Sector in the Programming Period 2014-2020 and in the Period 2021-2027 Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic
  • member of the monitoring committee for the Operational Program Integrated Infrastructure 2014-2020,
  • member of the commission of APVT SR (Agency for the Support of Science and Technology), Technical Sciences II (2004 - 2006)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications (from 10/2001 until now)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the University of Žilina in Žilina (2014-2018)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Forensic Engineering of the University of Žilina in Žilina
  • expert in the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic for Technical Sciences since 2006
  • member of the technical commission TK 116 Services, Slovak Institute of Technical Standardization
  • Member of the Transport Commission, City of Žilina, since 2016-2018
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Logistics and Forwarding of the Slovak Republic, Chairman of the Professional Section of Education and Publishing
  • member of the editorial board of the magazine NAŠE MORE (OUR SEE) (WoS and Scopus) (HR, since 2013)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of TRANSPORT and LOGISTICS (PL) since 2012
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the journal Problemy transportu a logistiki, University of Szczecin (PL), since 2016
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the scientific journal LOGI (CZ), since 2016
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the journal ZNALECTVO, USI
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal Economic and Management Spectrum (SK), since 2007-2018
  • Member of the Scientific and Editorial Board of the scientific journal TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS, Faculty of PEDAS, University of Žilina (since 2013)
  • member of the editorial board of the scientific peer-reviewed online journal Svet Dopravy (SK), since 2012 until now
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee of the TRANSPORT PROBLEMS Conference (PL) 2012
  • member of the editorial board of the magazine TRANSPORT a LOGISTIKA (SK) since 2002-2010
  • member of the scientific committees of the international scientific conferences TRANSPORT PROBLEMS (PL) since 2012, Electromobility in Road Transport and the 21st Century (CZ) since 2010, member of the scientific committee of the ROSALINE Congress (SR) 2009, LOGI (2017, 2018), VOD 2014, 2015 , 2016, 2018,2018, DIM (2017,2019), Our Sea - HR, 2019,
  • member of the expert committee of the ITS Prague 09 (CZ) 2009 congress, member of the scientific committee of the Logistics, Economics and Practice conference, since 2014,
  • Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Conference CMDTUR 2016, 2018 (SK)

Additional information

Accredited as the main professional guarantor of the training course FIATA Diploma - Freight Forwarding (forwarding) on May 28, 2020 at the headquarters of FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) in Genava, Switzerland. Based on this accreditation, the University of Žilina can administer globally recognized diplomas (FIATA Diploma) for the next four years until May 2024).

He is also the chairman of the commissions for the habilitation and inauguration proceedings at the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina in the study branch Transport Services. He is a member of the commissions for habilitation and inauguration proceedings at the Faculty of Transport, CTU Prague and the Jan Perner Faculty of Transport, University of Pardubice and has also performed a number of reviewers for these proceedings.

He is the guarantor of lifelong learning courses accredited by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Legal minimum in road freight transport and Freight forwarding - FIATA forwarding expert.

He is also the responsible solver of projects for practice, for example, the Logistic Concept of Transport Organization in Mondi SCP, a.s. Ružomberok, Instructions for securing cargo in road transport in U.S. Steel Košice, s.r.o. and Slovalco, a.s. Žiar nad Hronom.

He is the guarantor of domestic and international conferences such as CMDTUR (Road and Urban Transport and Sustainable Development), Logistics-Economics-Practice, TRANSPORT PROBLEMS, Our Sea, Public Passenger Transport, LOGI, ROSALINE, ITS Prague, etc. He was a responsible person for solving research activity 1.4: Workplace for research and development of services - CE IDS project (Center of Excellence for Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, ITMS 26220120028) where, for example, was managed to build a top workplace - freight transport laboratory focused on cargo securing.

As a responsible researcher, he participated in the elaboration of technical conditions of TP 103 "Permitting procedure for special use of roads in the transport of excessive and oversized loads", issued by the Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic in 2018 and used in professional practice.

Publications

Honors & awards

In 2012, he received an award from the Rector of the University of Žilina in Žilina for outstanding publishing activity. In 2011, he received an acknowledgment from the Traffic Police Department of the Presidium of the Police Force for his cooperation, which contributed to the achievement of the historically best results in traffic accidents. In 2013, he received an acknowledgment from the National Labor Inspectorate for participating in the implementation of the National Project of the European Social Fund "Improving the quality of public services provided by educating the labor inspectors", in which he participated as a trainer specializing in transport. In 2018, he received a commemorative plaque from the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications.

Honorable mention of the Association of Logistics and Freight Forwarding of the Slovak Republic in 2017 for lifetime contribution to the development of logistics in Slovak Republic, Commemorative plaque of the association of road transport operators of the Slovak Republic - ČESMAD Slovakia in 2016, Plaque of J.A. Comenius merited to teachers - University of Žilina in Žilina - March 2019.

Eset Science Award 2020 - Outstanding Academic -finalist: https://www.esetscienceaward.sk/sk/finalisti/jozef-gnap