Burchardt is senior researcher at Middelfart Museum in Denmark and has former been director of the Danish Road Museum. He is engineer followed by studies in ethnology at the University of Copenhagen and continuing education at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Deutsches Museum, Germany. Some of his lates works are: Mændene bag Danmarks største forurening. Cheminova 1938-1954 (The men behind Denmark's biggest pollution). under publication, approx. 340 pages, University Press of Southern Denmark. Gods på vej. Forsyningskæder, teknologi, regulering (Freight on Road. Supply chain, technology, regulation) 2017, 1.500 pages. “Have the Good Times for Transport History Ended? A Scientometrical Study of Danish Transport History.” In: Mobility in History, 2016. Lige ud ad landevejen. (The history of the Danish highways). 2006, 383 pages.