Operational Support Directorate
The activities of the Operational Support Directorate play an important role in the efficient functioning of the organisation.
It performs the following tasks:
- Public procurement, procurement
- Filing, document management
- Information technology
- Operations
- Security
- Library of Transport Sciences
The Public Procurement and Procurement Office:
Prepares the procurement and public procurement plan for KTI Non-profit Ltd. Registers, manages and coordinates the public procurement and tendering procedures adopted in the procurement and public procurement plan. Prepares the contracts resulting from the procedures. Records and preserves the documents resulting from all the Company’s tendering and public procurement procedures. Coordinates and performs the approval, procedures and contracting of requests for proposals that arise outside the procurement and public procurement plan.
Performs all connection, reporting, notification and authorisation duties relating to procurement and public procurement. Provides technical assistance and draws up rules and regulations in the field.
Provides technical support for the preparation of national and international tenders.
Manages the Company’s contract register.
Participates in the electronic development of processes.
Filing and Document Management Office:
Coordinates, manages and controls the company-wide document management process and archiving activities. Supports the widespread use of the IT system supporting document management by developing, updating and training users of the system, thereby ensuring the traceability of documents.
Provides the IT background for KTI Non-profit Ltd. and performs the tasks necessary for day-to-day operations (reception, cleaning, maintenance, upkeep, vehicle service, reprographics, operating the holiday resort at Zánka, warehouse and materials procurement).
Operates the Library of Transport Sciences:
KTI’s Public Library of Transport Science has a collection of 40,000 volumes, books in Hungarian and foreign languages, research reports, “grey literature”, journals, electronic databases, available to transport theoreticians, practitioners and citizens interested in the subject.
Search KTI’s library collection
About our library in brief
In 1938, when the National Automobile Experimental Station was opened, a special library was established from the library stock of the Hungarian Institute of Technology and Materials Testing.
After its transformation into a scientific institute, the importance of library services (translations, circulation of journals) increased. In the context of the reorganisation of the national library system, the library of the Road Transport Research Institute – later the Scientific Research Institute for Road Transport (KÖTUKI), the Scientific Information Centre for Road Transport and the Scientific Information Centre for Transport, is given a significant networking role in the professional management of specialised transport libraries. Although this role was lost as a result of the changes in the market economy, from 1991, with the support of the Development Department of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Water Management (Hungarian acronym: KHVM), KTI library was given a new coordinating role among the specialised libraries in the transport sector in the implementation of a two-level information infrastructure development programme. As a result of the infrastructure development, the level of IT application in the four specialised libraries of the transport sector and in the different branches of KTI will be steadily increased and a uniform approach to library automation systems will be established in these specialised libraries. With the support of the Ministry of Transport, the combined database of these libraries will be available on the Ministry’s local computer network for several years.
In 2009, the service area and reading room of our specialised library will be completely renewed. New services will also be introduced, such as the Info Bistro and the Research Corner. Our reading room will also host several small events.
In addition to the basic public library services (on-site reading, lending, inter-library loans, acquisition, reading service and bibliographic advice), our Public Specialised Library will also build a computer database accessible via the Internet (in the SZIKLA Integrated Library System) and will maintain permanent contact with national and international organisations and educational institutions interested in transport, not least with libraries and database providers of foreign co-research institutes.
The library is also involved in publication editing activities. Its content supports some of the graphs in the Trends – Graphical Database publication, prepares the yearbook summarising KTI’s research and results from the previous year, and produces commissioned bibliographies and ad hoc publications.
Public library services
Online search of KTI’s specialised library database
Online search (locally from KTI’s main building), e-Books, a number of Hungarian and foreign language online journals and databases (SciTech Premium Collection; journals of the publishing house Akadémiai Kiadó; WBIS; On-line Standards Library)
Reading room and Internet access from the computer in the reading room
Reading service, lending and inter-library lending
Bibliographic advice
Supply of specialist books, scientific journals and other professional publications on request
Information services
Cataloguing information on KTI library holdings
Preparation of specialised bibliographies
Assisting readers in using the specialised databases provided.
Available from our specialised library:
A list of our previous journals in national and foreign languages CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
A list of our national and foreign language journals for 2021 CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
Opening hours
From Monday to Thursday: 9:00 – 15:00
Friday: 9:00 – 13:00
Our library is accessible.
Registration, fees
To rent books and documents, you must register and pay the registration fee.
Registration fee: HUF 2,000/year
Reduced registration fee for students and senior citizens: HUF 1,000/year
Visitors over 70 years of age are exempt from paying the registration fee.
For inter-library lending, postage will be charged.
Copy services
Free self-service scanning is available in the library’s reading room.
Staff
Krisztina BENEDECSIK, Head of Library
Library Assistant
Contact
KTI Institute for Transport Sciences Non-profit Ltd.
Library of Transport Sciences
1119 Budapest, Than Károly utca 3-5., ground floor 20.
Krisztina BENEDECSIK, Head of Library
+36 (1) 371-5880
+36 (30) 83-233-83
benedecsik.krisztina@kti.hu
Library Assistant
+36 (1) 371-5879
+36 (30) 21-535-68
szabo.gabriella@kti.hu
