FIRM - issue 16 | DECEMBER 2020

ISSUE 16 | DECEMBER 2020

FIRM FEHRL INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH MAGAZINE

BD PAVE – A YEAR OF PROGRESS p. 6 RESIST INTEGRATED PLATFORM p. 8-11 TRAVISIONS 2020 - AWARDED PRIZES TO YOUNG AND SENIOR RESEARCHERS AT TRA 2020 p. 14-15

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INNOVATION FOR TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Transport infrastructure is the lifeblood of modern society, but often struggles to meet demands and expectations on reliability, availability, maintainability, safety, environment, health and cost. FEHRL’s role is to provide solutions for the challenges now faced and anticipate the challenges to come.

Through innovation, the operation of transport infrastructure can address society’s needs.

FEHRL encourages collaborative research into topics such as mobility, transport and infrastructure, energy, environment and resources, safety and security as well as design and production.

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EDITORIAL FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND A MESSAGE FROM FERHL PRESIDENT

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BD PAVEA YEAR OF PROGRESS

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TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING: A LONG AND LONELY JOURNEY?

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EARLY VERSION OF RESIST INTEGRATED PLATFORM

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED DRIVING TEST SITES

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TRA VISIONS 2020 - AWARDED PRIZES TO YOUNG AND SENIOR RESEARCHERS AT TRA 2020

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WELCOME Welcome to the 16 issue of FEHRL’s Infrastructure Research Magazine (FIRM), which outlines how FEHRL provides transport infrastructure solutions for current and future challenges.

Likewise, every other organisation, FEHRL and its members have adapted very quickly to the COVID-19 crisis at both strategic and operational levels. The FEHRL members have been engaged in developing good proposals to the last calls of H2020 and the CEDR calls. FEHRL members have been also exploring possibilities to contribute to the innovation calls opened in the frame of the Green Deal but this is avenue seems to be rather delicate and nebulous. FEHRL has advocated the need to support research on transport infrastructure in the Work Programmes of Horizon Europe. FEHRL members are very much looking forward to the opportunities offered by the first Work Programme!

FEHRL has been busy revisiting its rationale. As the FEHRL President announces, FEHRL will have a very new face in 2021! FEHRL is also building its next strategy plan which duration is linked to Horizon Europe (2021-2027). The strategy will include a fold on research with the edition of the new Strategic European Road Research Agenda (SERRP -2021-2024).

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This edition keeps updating you about the FEHRL initiative Big Data for Pavement Management (BD-PAVE) which involves nowadays several FEHRL institutes including the US Federal administration (FHWA). Readers will also be able to get the final findings from the STAPLE project, related to the deployment of Connected and Automated vehicles and its impacts on road infrastructure. FEHRL keeps promoting as well the promising research related to resilience of road infrastructure through our running R&D activities (RESIST).

Furthermore, FEHRL is delighted to welcome an article from the project SPADE. Finally, we promote once again the Senior and Junior researchers that were awarded by the TRA Vision Competition 2020; if you do not know yet the winners, go and check it out in our last article!

We wish you a good read!

Thierry Goger FEHRL Secretary General thierry.goger@fehrl.org

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MESSAGE FROM FEHRL’S PRESIDENT

DEAR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS 2020 has been a very productive year for FEHRL, who very quickly responded to the challenges posed by the COVID 19 crisis, and kept the good spirit for cooperative research, knowledge exchange and innovation fostering.

All FEHRL Directors have actively participated in a series of on-line workshops to collectively rethink FEHRL’s identity, vision and mission and to develop a strategy for the coming years. The workshops were organized by our excellent Secretariat, who made the most of the available tools for on-line collaborative work and subsequently expressed the outcome on a series of relevant documents for discussion General Assembly: The FEHRL Rationale, the FEHRL Strategy 2021-2027 and the

FEHRL Business Plan 2021.

Our Research Coordinators have kept being very active in exchanging ideas and experiences, reviewing FEHRL’s research agenda and preparing new proposals for upcoming research calls. Furthermore, they have been working on guidelines for digital collaboration, establishing new ways for successful information exchange, networking and collaborative research, both in the present context, when no physical meetings are feasible, and in the future, when physical and digital collaboration can co-exist.

In parallel, the FEHRL self-funded initiative BD-PAVE is moving forward: BD-PAVE is an initiative that coordinates different projects on turning

Big Data into information to achieve improvements in asset management, with the contribution from several European Institutes, as well as FHWA from the USA. I am looking forward to the conclusion of the work initiated in 2020 and the final approval of FEHRL’s strategic documents for the coming years, in early 2021.

In the meantime, I give my best wishes for a healthy and fruitful 2021 to all the members of the FEHRL Family!

Maria de Lurdes Antunes FEHRL President mlantunes@lnec.pt

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BD PAVE – A YEAR OF PROGRESS PARTNERS

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FEHRL’s BD Pave (Big Data for smart Pavement management) project continues to develop, with research being undertaken in various work areas and partnerships developed with researchers and end users in Europe and the USA. An initial task was to understand what sort of data on pavement condition was being routinely collected; information on this was provided by means of a survey of highway research laboratories and national road authorities, undertaken by Swedish Partner, VTI. A further action will be to understand what new data sources, such as smartphone or vehicle data might be available.

In early 2000, BASt recruited a fulltime employee to focus on machine learning and AI of various data sources, specifically around managing and gaining valuable information from large sources of data.

During the summer, a Project Advisory Board (PAB) was formed with members from European road administrations, Highways England, the Danish Road Directorate, Trafikverket and Infrastructuras de

Portugal, as well as FEHRL, the FEHRL Programme Manager and BASt. The PAB will oversee the project, determining how to coordinate the various national projects to form the building blocks of the BD Pave project. Specifically, the presence of four road administrations on the project will ensure that the research being undertaken will be of use to the ultimate end users. Additionally, all four organisations have, or are developing projects in topics that address areas relevant to BD Pave, such as data from vehicles, AI/ machine learning and smartphone data.

An ongoing activity has been cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration in the USA; a session on BD Pave and big data was held at TRB in January 2020, with meetings planned to be held at TRA in Helsinki, which was unfortunately cancelled.

However, online discussions have continued to take place to understand the activities being undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic, with a view to seeing how ongoing and planned research in the USA can address some of the BD Pave topics.

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numerous FEHRL members around BD Pave activities and how national research or company reinvestment projects could be used to fill the research requirements of the project. Whilst the project has a work package structure, this should only be seen as a framework for the sort of tasks that need to be undertaken, rather than a strict work-package format that would be typical for a funded project. The idea is that the initiative will adapt to work being undertaken by research institutes, rather than trying to fit the work to the project.

Looking to 2021, various FEHRL institutes have indicated that they will commit resources to research most of the initial work-packages, we will cooperate in a digital TRB on the subject and will develop a session for FIRM 21, whether physically, digitally or some hybrid form. We will hold workshops with FEHRL’s Research Coordinators and plan various dissemination activities to report on progress. If you have a research project that might focus on areas of interest, or would like to know more about the project, please get in touch.

Leader of the group, Dirk Jansen – jansen@bast.de

 For more information on the project, including understanding how your organisation can get involved, visit www.bdpave.eu, or contact the BD Pave Programme Manager, Martin Lamb at martin.lamb@fehrl.org.

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TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING: A LONG AND LONELY JOURNEY? THE SPADE METHOD HELPS SPEEDING UP THE PLANNING PROCESS AND MAKES IT MORE COLLABORATIVE. The planning of transport systems is complex, time-consuming and requires integrating both infrastructure and spatial development. The Conference of European Directors for Roads (CEDR) acknowledges the issue with the central question ‘How to achieve integrated project development of infrastructure and its spatial surroundings?’ The SPADE project (Assessing the added value from SPAtial DEvelopment as a factor in infrastructure planning), together with its sister projects SPINtrends and SPINdesign, provides a common framework for collaborative planning of multi-modal infrastructure and spatial development.

SPADE provides a quick and easy-to-use assessment method and tool, supporting the collaboration of all involved actors.

Challenge: A well-functioning and sustainable transport system is essential for a good functioning of society, economy and environment. In the planning process for transport infrastructure and spatial development, different stakeholders (e.g. road authorities, planners, interest groups) at different spatial levels feel an ongoing pressure to collaborate and to tune their planning with others. Support is required in the process of collaborative planning.

Solution: The SPADE method supports the collaborative planning process. It consists of a process and a tool. The process describes the steps needed to perform the collaborative assessment, involving stakeholders from different backgrounds, with different ‘wish lists’ and different planning procedures. The method can be repeated as often as necessary, to improve the assessment results and narrow the list of measures or alternatives to the most favourable ones.

The tool is a combination of different discussion formats (digital workshop or e-participation) and an assessment tool. The assessment tool combines a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The SPADE method was successfully tested in three case studies in Austria, the Netherlands and Norway.

Method application and benefits: The SPADE method is a supplement to conventional planning procedures. It fosters a collaboration between different stakeholders at all stages of the planning process. SPADE eases the exchange of information and supports the collaborative assessment of mobility measures and policy packages beyond the classical CBA, by including qualitative aspects or criteria. All in all, the method helps simplifying and accelerating transport infrastructure and spatial planning, specifically in complex surroundings such as urban areas or corridors.

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This project has received funding from the CEDR Transnational Road Research Programme

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EARLY VERSION OF RESIST INTEGRATED PLATFORM The RESIST project is a Research and Innovation Action that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under the Grant Agreement No 769066.

RESIST (RESilient transport InfraSTructure to extreme events), a 36-month project, started on 01 September 2018, and aims to increase the resilience of seamless transport operation to natural and man-made extreme events, protect the users of the European transport infrastructure and provide optimal information to the operators and users of the transport infrastructure.

RESIST SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE The development of the first integrated RESIST prototype was based on the RESIST system architecture defined during the first half period of the project taking into consideration the elicited technical and user requirements of the project. RESIST system architecture consists of several subcomponents, which operate either on the inspection field or in the RESIST's system backend and are accessible through a single point of access in the control center.

In general, the RESIST subcomponents can be grouped in three main categories as depicted in Figure 1. (a) the data collection components located on the field, which are responsible for gathering information (during the inspection process) from the UAV systems or several used sensors, (b) the RESIST platform backend modules, which are responsible for the analysis of the collected inspection data to boost the situation awareness of the operator regarding the health condition of the infrastructure, and (c) the RESIST Integration Environment component, which is a secured single point of access for the operator located in the control center providing access through a common web browser to all applications of RESIST system.

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Fig. 1 High level RESIST system architecture

All the inspection data collected from the field (images, point cloud, sensor data, and processing metadata including the location and the type of defects) are transferred to the RESIST backend through the esthesis Platform, which is the actual interface between the components in the inspection site and the RESIST backend system. From the esthesis Platform, all gathered data are available for fur-

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ther processing by a large set of applications: (a) Inspection Process Monitoring application for live monitoring of the entire inspection process, (b) Photogrammetric Visualization application for 3D point cloud presentation including the location and the type of the defects, (c) Structural Vulnerability Assessment application for the actual assessment of the infrastructure condition, (d) Risk Assessment application for assessment, management and planning of further mitigation actions, (e) Cyber-security Assessment application for continuous cyber-security evaluation of all assets of the infrastructure including the entire RESIST system, (f) Mobility Continuity application for re-routing planning and drivers notification through personalized messages in case of extreme events. The user interfaces for all these applications are seamlessly provided though a single point of access (Integration Environment) to the operator in the control room.

A short description of all integrated applications in the early RESIST prototype is presented below.

DATA COLLECTION COMPONENTS For the collection of inspection data, UAV systems are used to cover the inspection needs in bridges and tunnels. The UAVs are responsible for capturing images and sensor data from several sensors, and for installing new sensors on the infrastructure. The operator of the UAV is able to guide the RPAS according to the provided flight plan from the control center using the GCS (Figure 2). After the completion of the inspection flight, the available sensor data will be transferred to esthesis Platform, while the collected images will be used by the advanced computer vision systems of the project to finally: (a) detect the type and the location of the defects, (b) create 2D annotated images of the defects, and (c) create the 3D point cloud. The output of the computing vision systems will be finally stored in the esthesis Platform, which will also retain data from past inspections.

Fig. 2 Ground Control Station (GCS) for UAV navigation and inspection

RESIST PLATFORM BACKEND The Inspection Process Management (IPM) application is used by all actors of an inspection process located in the control center (infrastructure operator) and on the field (UAV operator and operator of the computing vision systems). In RESIST project, the IPM: (a) orchestrates the entire inspection process providing live monitoring of the process with step granularity to the operator in the control center, (b) orchestrates all actors of the inspection located in the control center and on the field, (c) facilitates the communication of all actors located in the control center and on the field, (d) facilitates control center operator to start a new inspection process, while simultaneously managing multiple inspection processes for the same or different assets, and (e) contributes on the standardization of the inspection process, as all actors through the IPM follow specific steps for the quick and the detailed inspection of bridges and tunnels.

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Fig. 3 Indicative forms of IPM applications through the integration Environment. Form for creation of a quick inspection process for the infrastructure including the flight plan (on the left), and high level diagram for live monitoring of the entire inspection process (on the right)

The sequence of all these predefined steps can be assumed as a protocol for the inspection operation. The IPM application (Figure 3) is available to all actors through the Integration Environment and through a common web browser.

The Photogrammetric Visualization application (Figure 4) provides a viewer for the generated 3D data from collected image data. Furthermore, detected damage annotations can be directly shown in the viewer. It includes several functionalities for the user to view an appealing 3D model of the observed structure, navigate the model and quickly take measurements such as distance measurements, area measurements, and angle measurements.

The RESIST mobility continuity application (Figure 5) targets at informing commuters regarding events that could happen along their trip. Moreover, it provides recommendations and guidelines to mitigate possible issues.

For example, in the case of road closure the system recommends alternative routes. In the case of lane closure the system reports adjacent predicted lane average speed by executing mobility simulations based on statistical data regarding the area of interest. By providing lane speed data, the RESIST mobility continuity module further enhances the level of information available to the commuters so that they can make appropriate adjustments when planning or during their trip.

Fig. 5 Mobility continuity application through the Integration Environment

Fig. 4 Photogrammetric visualisation application through the Integration Environment

Furthermore, users of infrastructure can be informed regarding the status of the road and possibilities regarding rerouting in case of an extreme event through the mobility continuity mobile application (Figure 6). The mobile application provides also capability for destination selection and journey planning. The application is available for Android enabled devices installed with version 6.0 or later.

Fig. 6 Rerouting instructions through the mobile application

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he Structural Vulnerability Assessment and Risk T Assessment components contribute to the accurate assessment of the infrastructure condition of bridges and tunnels, while estimating the potential risks and proposing mitigation actions. Indicatively,

RESIST INTEGRATION ENVIRONMENT The Integration Environment is a web-based application through which the user of RESIST will have access to the applications of the project through a simple web browser in a secured manner. Apart from the aforementioned applications that are already integrated in the application, the RESIST Integration environment is enhanced with applications for user and application management.

Through these applications, user groups can be created and updated, while access to some applications can be restricted to only some users or groups. Also, the Integration Environment gives the opportunity to the same user to open and use two or more different applications simultaneously (Figure 9).

Fig. 7 User interface of Structural and Risk Assessment application

Figure 7 presents the visualization for tunnels each colored ring represents a cross-section where a crack has been detected, it has been structurally assessed and is colored according to its estimated risk level. Red stands for high-risk level, yellow for medium risk level and green for low-risk level. The user can interact with the visual tunnel, using the mouse buttons. The user can zoom in and out with the utilization of the mouse wheel and navigate inside the tunnel. If the user clicks on a specific cross-section from the list of cross-sections on the left or by clicking on the colored ring, he/she will be navigated to the corresponding length of the tunnel. Double-clicking a cross-section will open a new screen for further details.

The Cyber-security Assessment application (Figure 8) is a combination of models, processes and tools to enable the certification of security properties of services and components of RESIST project. Furthermore, within RESIST, the cyber-security assessment application enables the continuous assessment of the cyber-security of the system through the combination of runtime monitoring and dynamic testing. It also collects runtime system events and generate alerts that can be used for identification, prevention, and mitigation of cyber-attacks.

Fig. 9 Two applications simultaneously opened through the RESIST Integration Environment

At this stage of RESIST project, the preliminary versions of the applications have already been integrated to create the first integrated prototype. During the next period, several refinements will take place in the applications to cover all requirements and needs of the end-users for a successful assessment of the entire RESIST solution in the two pilots of the project.

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED DRIVING TEST SITES The SiTe Automation Practical LEearning (STAPLE) project has now come to an end. The 24-month project was funded as part of the CEDR Call 2017 on Automation. The aim of the project was to provide a comprehensive review of technological and non-technological aspects of the most relevant connected and automated driving test sites across Europe and beyond, in order to understand the impact of these sites on the NRA’s core business and functions.

Over 70 test sites in Europe and elsewhere were identified through personal contacts and knowledge of the project team, web searches and discussion with the CEDR Connected and Automated Driving (CAD) Working group and industry contacts (Report Catalogue of connected and automated driving test sites). The output of this work is a catalogue of connected and automated driving test sites, identifying and categorising 37 test sites in Europe. The sites are also presented in a Google map page which gives the locations of the test tracks and approximate extent of roadbased test sites.

A preselection of 16 test sites for further investigation was made by the project team and discussions with the CEDR CAD. These sites were prioritised based on factors including; provision of information to the team in

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the first phase, the type of track or roads involved and sites or projects that would be operational beyond the lifetime of the project. Final agreement was done, and visits made to the following sites by members of the project team, CEDR project officers and representatives of NRAs (Report - Summary of Findings from Interviews and Site Visits): • • • •

Horiba MIRA, Midlands, UK, Midlands Future Mobility, UK Alp.Lab, Graz, Austria, TRANSPOLIS, Lyon, France.

The project team took the learnings from the test sites initially categorising the test sites by road / track type, for example urban, interurban, simulations, detailing the practical implications for each and noting test sites in each category and occasions where NRAs were directly involved. The

sites where priority areas for NRAs (safety, traffic efficiency, customer service, maintenance and construction and data / C-ITS) were discussed and implications for NRAs presented (Report - Practical learnings from test sites and impact assessments). From the findings developed, a series of recommendations were made to NRAs. In order to validate, prioritise and add new recommendations, the project team organised four virtual Workshops with the CAD members and other experts. The main purpose of these Workshops was to work on the recommendations to NRAs for future research and test site focus.

Each workshop involved a quick summary presentation of the progress of the project, followed by an interactive session using the online ‘MURAL’ whiteboard tool. Following a brief tutorial on the tool, attendees were asked to look at the recommendations, comment and challenge them and add any new ones. At the end of each Workshop, a voting session was open for the workshop participants, who were asked to vote on the recommendations they felt were the most important.

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Work needs to be undertaken on cross-country data sharing and standardisation of testing

More work needs to be undertaken around privacy on data collected from public roads

Guidance for CEDR to become involved in EC Research and Innovation projects should be provided

NRAs should identify the main construction and maintenance operations with a view to robotising tasks

NRAs and auto industry could benefit from talking with each other more

Interactions between ODDs should be investigated

Mixed traffic trials at various speeds should be undertaken

A roadmap for removal of traditional infrastructure should be prepared

Figure 1. Key recommendations

Following the workshops and internal discussion within the STAPLE team, the following recommendations were presented (Figure 1).

The highest ranked recommendations have been expanded to consider the benefits, how they could be imple-

mented (route, timeline), practical learnings and what barriers there might be, that would need to be overcome. In other words, the roadmap for each highest ranked recommendation (for communications, data, applications, process) was prepared. Each roadmap consists of implementation

status, benefits of implementation, route to implementation, timeline for implementation, barriers to implementation and practical learnings.

The final project report (Recommendations for future test sites) can be found here. ď ľ For more information contact Project Coordinator Adewole Adesiyun at adewole.adesiyun@fehrl.org or see www.stapleproject.eu

This project has received funding from the CEDR Transnational Road Research Programme Call 2017

The funding CEDR members are Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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TRA VISIONS 2020 AWARDED PRIZES TO YOUNG AND SENIOR RESEARCHERS AT TRA 2020 TRA VISIONS PARTNERS 2020

The EC-funded TRA VISIONS 2020 competition awarded prizes to both its young and senior researcher winners at VISIONS 2020 Award Ceremony which was held online on Tuesday 29th September 2020.

The main activity of TRA VISIONS 2020, a project funded by the European Commission (EC) (grant agreement No 824293), is the development and implementation of two competitions. One is directed towards young researchers and the second towards senior researchers involved in EU projects. They take place every two years together with the TRA (Transport Research Arena), the most important European conference on transport.

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YOUNG RESEARCHER WINNERS Overall, 207 young researchers from 91 different European universities and 24 EU countries participated in the TRA VISIONS 2020 Young Researcher Competition and submitted their ideas for the transport modes of road, rail, airborne, waterborne and cross-modality.

Prizes were sponsored by industry (ERTRAC, Shift2rail, Deep Blue, SAFRAN, WATERBORNE TP, ALICE and UITP).

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IN THE ROAD SECTOR, THE WINNERS WERE • Pier Giuseppe Anselma, Claudio Maino, Alessia Musa from Politecnico di Torino (1st place: “THEO: a tailored hybrid emission optimizer for the drivers of tomorrow”), • Milan Tešic from University of Belgrade (2nd place: “Star rating Road Safety Performances and Identifying the most significant Road Safety Indicators of a Territory”) and • Ahmed Ayadi, Jakob Pfeiffer and Mohamed Ali Razouane from Technical University of Munich (3rd place: “Self-Learning Enhancement of Measurement Quality with Artificial Intelligence”).

IN THE RAIL SECTOR, THE WINNERS WERE • S aad Ahmed Khan from Luleå University of Technology (1st place: “Effects of Friction Modifiers on the Friction, Wear and Cracks of Rails”), • Visakh V. Krishna from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2nd place: “Track Friendliness 4.0”) and • Matthias Volk and Norman Weik from RWTH Aachen University (3rd place: “Reliability Analysis of Railway Station Infrastructure based on Dynamic Fault Trees”).

IN THE AIRBORNE SECTOR, THE WINNERS WERE • Matteo Marchionni from Brunel University London (1st place: “A Novel Concept for a ZeroEmission Aircraft Turbo-fan Engine using CO2 in the Supercritical Phase as Primary Working Fluid”), • Roberto Merino-Martinez from Delft University of Technology (2nd place: “Seeing with sound – Towards silent aviation”) and • Panagiota Polydoropoulou from University of Patras (3rd place: “Increased multifunctionality by filling Carbon Nanotubes with healing agent”).

IN THE WATERBORNE SECTOR, THE WINNERS WERE • Thiago Pessôa from Technical University of Denmark (1st place: “Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of CO2 Emissions in Shipping: Identification and Comparison of Available Methods”), • Alexandros Lampoglou and Christos Mantolas from Newcastle University (2nd place: “Automated Fuel Oil Management Unit”) and • Victor Bolbot from University of Strathclyde (3rd place: “Dynamic Blackout Probability Monitoring System for Cruise Ship Power Plant”).

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FINALLY, IN THE CROSSMODALITY SECTOR, THE WINNERS WERE • Nikolaou Paraskevas from University of Cyprus (1st place: “Controlling the Possible Spread of Infectious Diseases through the Air Transportation Network: A Dynamic Network Approach”), • María J. Alonso González from Delft University of Technology (2nd place: “Potential Uptake of Mobility-as-a-Service for Different Market Segments”) and • Ioulia Markou from the Technical University of Denmark (3rd place: “Prediction of traffic anomalies due to special events”).

SENIOR RESEARCHER WINNERS The TRAVISIONS 2020 Senior Researcher Competition received 81 entries from researchers based in 20 countries from all over Europe.

Entries were submitted for the five transport modes road, rail, airborne, waterborne and cross-modality.

• I n the road sector, the winner is Zissis Samaras full professor at Aristotle University for his work on testing and modelling of engine and vehicle emissions.

• The rail winner is Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Senior Lecturer in Railway and Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham for his research on environmentfriendly, resilient, and smart rail infrastructures.

• The airborne competition was won by Vassilis Kostopoulos, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at the University of

Patras and Director of the Applied Mechanics and Vibrations Laboratory, as a recognition of his contribution to airborne transport development.

• Pentti Kujala, Professor of Marine Technology and Vice Dean for Research at the School of Engineering in Aalto University, is the winner in the waterborne sector and he is recognised for his research on Arctic shipping and operations.

• The fifth winner is Professor Cristina Pronello from Politecnico di Torino and she is acknowledged for her continued and outstanding contribution to cross-modal transportation research.

Finally, the TRA VISIONS 2022 project has just started. The scope of the proposal is like the one described above i.e. to organise two competitions for transport research awards to be announced at the TRA conference in 2022 (scheduled to take place in Lisbon, Portugal): • a young researcher competition with the goal of stimulating the interest in the field of sustainable transport among young researchers and students.

• a competition for senior researchers in the field of innovative transport concepts based on results only from EU funded projects

More details will be provided in the next edition of the FIRM magazine and will also be available on the project’s website www.travisions.eu.  For more information, contact Project Coordinator George Smyrnakis at george.smyrnakis@newcastle.ac.uk.

Look up TRA Visions on Facebook, Twitter or Linked In or see www. travisions.eu/TRAVisions

These projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 824293 (TRA VISIONS 2020) & No. 101006593 (TRA VISIONS 2022)

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