Associate prof. Ing. Tomas Tichy, PhD, MBA, was born in Prague in 1974, and he graduated from the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2000. He received his PhD degree in 2004 in the field of Engineering Informatics and was appointed as associate professor in Engineering Informatics in Transport and Telecommunications in 2009. He graduated in 2017 from the University of Economics in Prague. He teaches courses on ITS control systems, system safety and reliability, tunnel systems and transport telematics as a lecturer at CTU in Prague. Since 2000, he has worked in the ELTODO Group in various positions, from a traffic engineer to the head of the traffic management department, and has experience in the implementation and design of ITS systems, traffic control algorithms, tunnel systems, public lighting, etc. He is the director of Strategic Development and is responsible for the development of the entire ELTODO Group (Energy, Transport, ICT, Lighting and Industry), solves grant projects, collaborates with the private and academic sectors in research and development, is responsible for ISO and TQM in the ELTODO Group and manages as many as 50 employees with a turnover of more than CZK 50 million. Currently, he works at CTU FTS as the head of the laboratory of traffic control and modeling and he has solved science and research projects.