Events

This one-day landmark event brings together key opinion leaders and business professionals to explore the current state and future of Smart Transportation Infrastructures in a unique and dynamic atmosphere. It offers the opportunity to reflect on current issues, learn about new trends, and engage with key thought-leaders, decision-makers and practitioners from across the globe.

The 2016 Edition took place in Brussels, Belgium on 3 February 2016. Download the programme and conference proceedings.

The 2017 Edition took place in Brussels, Belgium on 28 November 2017. Download the programme and conference proceedings.

The 2018 Edition took place in Brussels, Belgium on 27 November 2018. Download the programme and conference proceedings.

The 2019 Edition took place in Brussels, Belgium on 26 November 2019. Download the programme and conference proceedings.

The 2020 Edition will take place on 24 November 2020 in virtual format, and its programme will be announced in due time.

These one-day events offer a review of the specific efforts carried out by the STA community to bring to reality the deployment of Smart Transportation Infrastructures connecting people and businesses across the world.

The first Roundtable took place in the heart of Europe –Brussels, Belgium – on Tuesday 25 October 2016. Download the programme and Roundtable proceedings.

These events aims at facilitating the exchange of international good practice connected to the methods, technologies and standards associated to transportation infrastructures.

The first STA Training Workshop took place in Yaoundé (Cameroon) on 13 – 14 June 2017. Download the programme.

The second STA Training Workshop took place in Yaoundé (Cameroon) on 12 – 13 September 2018. Download the programme.

The ‘STA Innovation Awards’ honour global innovators that have decisively contributed to deploying Smart Transportation Infrastructures worldwide, and to improving the methods, technologies and standards associated to transportation infrastructures.

The Awards are given in two categories:

• Person of the Year: highlighting the achievements of exceptional individual accomplishment.
• Best Innovation Project or Solution: underscoring teamwork that is breaking the existing paradigms for transportation infrastructures.

2016 Awardees
Person of the Year: Dr. Alistair Clark,  Managing Director for Environment and Sustainability – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Best Innovation Projects (ex-aequo): FOTsis Project and TEV Project

2017 Awardees
Person of the Year (ex-aequo): Mr Andreas Rimkus, Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany & Prof Vittorio Giavotto, Professor Emeritus, Polytechnic University of Milano
Best Innovation Projects: SMEV: Digital Optimisation of Traffic Conditions for Emergency Vehicles

2018 Awardees
Person of the Year (ex-aequo): Dr. Aniceto Zaragoza, Director General, Spanish Cement Association (OFICEMEN) & Mr Dirk Van Loo, CEO, COPRO (Belgium)
Best Innovation Project and Solution: Sustainable Pavements & Railways Initial Training Network SUP&R ITN (Project) & Apertum, Real-Time Guide to Step-Free Mobility (Solution)

2019 Awardees
Person of the Year (ex-aequo): Mr Steve Phillips, Secretary-General at Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR)  & Mr Gauthier Michaux, Head of Road Signalling at the Service Public de Wallonie – Mobilité & Infrastructures (Belgium)
Best Innovation Projects (ex-aequo): NOESIS: Novel Decision Support tool for Evaluating Strategic Big Data Investments in Transport and Intelligent Mobility Services & BIOREPAVATION: Innovation in Bio-Recycling of Old Asphalt Pavements

• Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) 100% Online, 17-18 November 2020

STA will collaborate with the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) 2020 edition, which has become an online event due to the pandemic situation. The event has been re-labelled as ‘Smart City Live 2020’ and aims to become a meeting place to collectivise urban power, to increase the strength of cities, to identify business opportunities, to establish partnerships and to enact common policies between the participants.

• 17th COTEC Innovation Summit. 100% Online, 22 June 2020

STA has participated as an Institutional Partner to the 17th edition of the COTEC Innovation Summit (Portugal). The conference was held under the theme “From 4.0 to Industrial Renaissance. The Next Steps for a Post COVID Era”, and focused on the impact of COVID 19 and on debating the possibility of a European “Industrial Renaissance”, converging strategies of back-shoring, 4.0 technologies and innovation.

• 1st Online Congress on Sustainable Urban Mobility . 100% Online, 20-24 April 2020.

The first Online Congress on Sustainable Urban Mobility (COMUS) was held on 20-24 April 2020. This 100% online event gathered 110 panellists and 12,000 participants around topics such as sustainability, innovation and current mobility trends. STA President J. Papí represented STA at the event with a presentation on the “Key Challenges for the Smart Transportation Infrastructures of the Future”.

• Road Network Safety Management in Fast-Motorising Economies. Málaga (Spain), 30-31 March 2017  

STA, as Knowledge Partner, supports this IRF (International Road Federation) workshop intended to provide participants with the necessary theoretical background and applied practices on traffic injury risk diagnosis and reduction to ensure road safety programmes and investments are adequately dimensioned and targeted.

This two-days course brings together road safety professionals and internationally-renowned speakers from different countries across the globe.

• Summer School 2015: ‘Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructures’. Palermo (Italy), 16-22 September 2015

STA supports this course aimed at civil engineers, researchers and academics with an interest in sustainable engineering.

The event, organised in the context of Super ITN (Sustainable Pavement & Railway Initial Training Network), brings together world-class academics and researchers from Virginia Tech (US) or Network Rail (UK), among others.