2020
V4 Oil Analytics Cluster: Engine Oil Diagnostics
for Sustainable Public Transport Systems
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
General Information
We are happy to announce our new initiative in the V4 region!
We aim to facilitate the green and digital transformation in public transport across the Visegrad countries by integrating the expertise of four regional universities and four municipal transport operators.
Greener and more cost-effective urban mobility solutions represent our key objectives for regional cooperation. Public transport networks remain central to low-carbon mobility, yet 92.5% of buses currently operating in Europe still run on diesel engines. Fleet operators face tight budget constraints and must keep these internal combustion vehicles reliable while actively reducing emissions. Currently, we observe that operators change engine oil based on fixed mileage or time intervals, ignoring real-time conditions like stop-and-go traffic, idling, and varying loads. We believe we need to extend condition-based maintenance practices to municipal transport companies. To achieve this, our V4 region requires a dynamic professional research network that will accelerate digital transformation in fleet management. We will combine traditional physicochemical laboratory diagnostics with continuous On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) telemetry to pioneer hybrid diagnostic solutions.
Implementation period
1 November 2026 – 30 April 2028
Project Coordinator
Ph.D. Wojciech Gołębiowski
Project activities
We will build a professional network of scientific institutions and transport operators to share best practices, develop unified analytical protocols, and improve the regional ecosystem for sustainable fleet operations.
We place a particular focus on involving regional business partners (municipal transport operators) in direct cooperation with our academic teams. Thanks to the complementary expertise of our consortium, we will:
- Monitor and collect high-frequency engine parameters (OBD data) and used-oil samples from city buses operating across 4 major urban centres in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, and Hungary over a 12-month period.
- Harmonize tribological and physicochemical testing methods across our 5 partner laboratories.
As a result, we will provide an open-access condition database and develop an innovative Machine Learning software toolkit – the V4 Oil Health Calculator. We will support regional transport sectors by deploying predictive algorithms that forecast engine wear, optimize oil change intervals, reduce unnecessary waste, and lower carbon emissions per passenger-kilometre.
Project Partners
Our consortium consists of 8 dedicated institutional and industrial partners
University of Life Sciences in Lublin (Poland) – Lead Applicant
University of Žilina (Slovakia)
University of Defence (Czechia)
University of Pardubice (Czechia)
Széchenyi István University (Hungary)
Municipal Transport Company Lublin LLC (Poland)
SAD Prievidza a.s. (Slovakia)
Transport company of the city of Pardubice a.s. (Czechia)
MÁV Passenger Transport Ltd. / Volánbusz (Hungary)
Personal data processing
- Controller of personal data
We act as the controller of your personal data, operating as the University of Life Sciences in Lublin. You can contact us in the following way: ul. Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland. - Data protection officer
You may contact our Data Protection Officer, Anna Buchlińska-Brzozowska, in all matters concerning the processing of personal data and the exercise of rights related to data processing via email: anna.buchlinska@up.edu.pl. - The purposes and legal basis of data processing
We will process your personal data for purposes related to the implementation of the project no. 22610044: V4 Oil Analytics Cluster.
Our legal basis for processing your personal data comprises Article 6, Paragraph 1(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 (GDPR).
For information, promotion, and dissemination purposes, we might publish your image, including photos and recordings made during project workshops and roadshows, on-line (project website, our University’s website and social media, Visegrad Fund’s website) and/or in printed materials. We might also share these materials with the International Visegrad Fund as part of our project reporting duties.
Providing your personal data remains voluntary, but it is necessary to participate in the activities and implement project no. 22610044. If you do not provide these data, we will not be able to include you in the above-mentioned project activities.
- Period of personal data storage
We will store your personal data for the period necessary to perform the contract established under project no. 22610044 between our University of Life Sciences in Lublin and the International Visegrad Fund. - Data recipients
Because we fund these activities through a grant from the International Visegrad Fund, we are obliged to present attendance lists and photographic documentation to the Visegrad Fund for reporting and billing purposes. For promotional activities, we might publish your image in our printed policy briefs, guidelines, or on the project website. - Rights related to the processing of personal data
You possess the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data: the right to access your data, the right to rectify them, the right to restrict processing, and the right to object to processing.
Contact
Project Coordinator:
Ph.D. Wojciech Gołębiowski
Department of Power Engineering and Transportation
Faculty of Production Engineering
E-mail: wojciech.golebiowski@up.edu.pl
Phone no. (+48) 81 5319720
International Projects Office
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University of Life Sciences in Lubin
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