Media Corner
MEDIA COVERAGE
2018
07
Dec
ARTICLE “SMART TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE FUTURE”, PUBLISHED IN GOVERNMENT EUROPA: STA’S PRESIDENT JOSÉ F. PAPÍ EXPLAINS HOW SMART MOBILITY IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SMART TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES
Smart mobility is impossible without smart transportation infrastructures. Our lives are becoming ‘smart’: we enjoy smartphones, our urban environments are evolving into smart cities, and our automobiles are incorporating smart features, assisting our driving and increasing our safety. In this context, smart transportation infrastructures are
23
Sep
STA Chairman José F. Papí discusses the importance of High Performance Steels (HPS) for the Future Generation of Road Restraint Systems: The HIPEBA Project (“Thinking Highways” Global Edition, Volume 13, September 2018)
The EU is facing more and more competition from non-EU producers and advanced research is vital for the European industry for the sake of competitiveness, as well as to gain a better understanding of the increasing importance of high-performance steel in the everyday road safety
20
Mar
Personal service: how crowdsourcing the Physical Internet in your neighbourhood can be considered smart mobility innovation (InterConnected Magazine 2018)
Logistics require centralised planning and thinking. There is much research focusing on learning from ant colony and beehive analysis in order to create learning systems for logistics operations. But there is a limit on how much we can learn from ants and bees. Might it
2017
28
Sep
Road Tech: Addressing the challenges of traffic growth (The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Report)
The report examines the role of technology and smart engineering in addressing issues arising from the growth in traffic. The findings are based on desk research and interviews with innovators and subject matter experts. The STA Chairman, José F. Papí, is one of the 21
14
Jun
Progress in Progress (Thinking Highways Article – Vol. 12 No. 1, Jul 2017)
The Energy Union Package defines a framework strategy for a resilient Energy Union with a forward-looking climate change policy, whose main targets for 2030 are: i) at least 40% of reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; ii) at least 27% of share in renewable energy; and
09
Jun
Mapping Transport Disadvantage in Europe (Thinking Highways Column – Vol. 12 No. 1, Jul 2017)
Transport accessibility is recognised today as one of the most important issues to be solved within the next decade, both in the sense of social and/or mobility needs. The accessibility challenge impacts on a number of transport users’ segments (unemployed persons, those with disabilities, vulnerable
2016
15
Dec
Earmarking fiscal income to transport infrastructure funding (Thinking Highways Column – Vol. 11 No. 3, Dec 2016)
Today the cost of providing transport infrastructure is met directly through user charges, or indirectly through taxation. In the case of closed systems (rail, aviation), users pay for the infrastructure as a part of their overall transport charge. For open systems, primarily roads, there is
15
Dec
Safe and secure? (Thinking Highways Article – Vol. 11 No. 3, Dec 2016)
Every year road accidents cause more than 3,600 fatalities and over 5,000 injuries in France. Furthermore in 2016 road fatalities increased by 3.1 per cent compared to the previous year. Notwithstanding, this situation is more or less the same across Europe so the time has
07
Oct
Step-Free Mobility: a problem worth solving (Thinking Highways Column – Vol. 11 No. 2, Aug 2016)
Stepping on loose flagstones or being raked by head-level barbed wire are our morning stories when we go to work. However, for people with disabilities ordinary travels around European cities are a daunting task. Many wheelchair users end up navigating only a small tranche of
2015
25
Sep
The role of infrastructures in the Smart Mobility era (Thinking Highways Column – Vol. 10 No. 3, Sep/Oct 2015)
As society moves ‘smarter’ transportation infrastructures should be looking at how they too can develop to increase convenience, speed and reliability in the system. STA Chairman José F. Papí discusses the importance of evolving customer expectations towards customisation and developing ‘smart’ solutions in this column featured in the third 2015
14
Sep
EN1317: A standard out of date? (Thinking Highways Article – Vol. 10 No. 3, Sep/Oct 2015)
The EN1317 European standard was developed within the framework of the Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC) and EN1317-5 serves as the basis for the CE marking of road safety systems, including barriers and guardrails, crash cushions, barrier extremities and transitions. While this has represented a major
31
Aug
A co-operative effort (Thinking Highways Article – Vol. 10 No. 2, Jul 2015)
In the last few decades several initiatives have had a profound impact on the way road traffic and road safety are managed. Continuous development of data collection, processing and communications technologies have made available to users and traffic managers the mechanisms to increase their awareness