Chief designer, project coordinator or knowledge engineer in planning and designing substations and installations in traffic
Abstract
On new sections of highways in the Republic of Croatia, new facilities and installations were built for the purpose of traffic safety. Experiences in planning and designing improve specialist knowledge in certain areas of the profession. In order to solve problems, agreeing and deciding from the position of investors and other participants in construction, it is necessary to more precisely divide the competences and raise the level of assumed responsibilities of the designers. With the current legislative framework, the chief designer has assumed declarative responsibility through his professional expertise. The coordination of the project and all involved participants in the design requires an engagement that is recognized as a knowledge engineer in increasingly present expert systems that have become an essential element in the development and use of computer aids in planning and design. The paper presents examples of problem solving in the planning and design of facilities and installations in the function of traffic safety and a proposal for a framework for a new legislative solution based on continuous monitoring and the creation of knowledge bases. The new technologies of the equipment used and the new possibilities of available program support packages in designing guarantee energy efficiency, rationalization and environmental protection in the construction of transport infrastructure. The imperative of a new design direction can only be achieved with a multidisciplinary approach at the level of expertise.
Slavko Vujević
Professor Emeritus
An expert in electrical engineering, particularly known for his contributions to numerical modeling of electromagnetic phenomena, lightning protection, and grounding. Throughout his career, he was a key member of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecture in Split, where he taught, mentored students, and actively participated in scientific research and international professional organizations.
Rino Lucić
Full Professor
Dr. sc. Rino Lucić is a retired professor from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecture in Split. Throughout his career, he taught courses at all study levels and actively participated in the realization of numerous scientific-research projects. As an author or co-author, he has published 41 scientific papers and 16 professional articles, with research interests spanning numerical modeling, transmission lines, finite element method, and power system transient analysis.
Dino Lovrić
Associate Professor | Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Modelling
Associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, with reserch focused on the development of numerical models of grounding systems in various types of soil, particularly in scenarios involving the dissipation of alternating current and transient currents caused by lightning strikes or switching overvoltages, also involved in developing models of dynamic and transient processes in power systems using modern numerical methods.