Check out STA's video clip 'Smart Transportation Infrastructures: A Look into the Future'

17 July 2015

‘Smart Transportation Infrastructures: A Look into the Future’ is a whiteboard animation presenting the four key attributes of the Smart Transportation Infrastructures of the Future: Mobility, Intelligence, Safety & Security and Sustainability.

The video clip reviews the main challenges towards the deployment of a new generation of Transportation Infrastructures connecting people and businesses across the world, and is available in STA’s YouTube channel.

STA supports course on 'Sustainability Assessment of Transport Infrastructures' (Palermo, Italy, 16-23 Sep 2015)

10 August 2015

The Smart Transportation Alliance (STA) sponsors a groundbreaking course aimed at civil engineers, researchers and academics with an interest in sustainable engineering.

The high-level training, 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.

2015 STA Annual Innovation Awards: Last opportunity to submit your entry!

14 July 2015

The Call for Entries to STA Annual Innovation Awards has extended its deadline until next 31 July 2015.

The “STA Annual Innovation Awards” honour global innovators that have decisively contributed to deploying Smart Transportation Infrastructures (“Person of the Year” Category) and to improving the methods, technologies and standards associated to transportation infrastructures (“Best Innovation Solution/Project” Category).

24 November 2015: book your agenda for the 1st STA Annual Conference

17 August 2015

The 2015 STA Annual Conference will offer an innovative and informative review of the current state of deployment of Smart Transportation Infrastructures connecting people and businesses.

The event will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on Tuesday 24 November 2015 and will be coupled with the award ceremony of the 1st edition of the “STA Annual Innovation Awards”. Delegates can participate either in-person at the conference’s venue or remotely via state-of-the-art online tools. A draft programme will be announced soon.

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European Commission puts forward record €13.1 billion investment in transport infrastructure to boost jobs and growth.

This investment will unlock additional public and private co-financing for a combined amount of €28.8 billion. Along with the future European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the CEF will play a major role in bridging the investment gap in Europe, which is one of the Commission's top priorities.

Eight key facts from UITP's big mobility survey. 

Halfway to their 2025 deadline to double the global market share of public transport, UITP has analysed mobility trends in 60 metropolitan areas around the world and is set to publish the statistics in an extensive database.

TRB Report: Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports Volume 1 (Primer). 

Primer explores the value of airports to communities and the national airspace system.

The primer also reviews the various infrastructure assets at airports and outlines the value of planning and prioritizing preventive maintenance into the budgeting process and the impacts to operations if an airport fails to conduct preventive maintenance. In addition, it identifies basic principles for establishing and implementing a preventive maintenance program.

These countries have the best infrastructure.

The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report evaluates the infrastructure of 144 of the world’s economies on various measures – including the quality of road and rail networks and the quality of the electricity supply – to produce an overall global ranking.

ITF Report: Surface transport demand in the long run.

This report presents an overview of long-run scenarios to 2050 for the development of global surface (road and rail) passenger mobility and freight traffic.

The transport scenarios are translated into CO2 emission scenarios by applying potential transport technology pathways.