STA Newsletter
Issue # November 2017
A bi-monthly online journal providing news and background about activities undertaken by STA with a view to improving the methods, technologies and standards associated to transportation infrastructures.
2017 STA Annual Conference & Innovation Awards: Proceedings available
29 November 2017
The Smart Transportation Alliance gathered 50+ experts at its annual landmark event, the 2017 STA Annual Conference & Innovation Awards, held in Brussels on 28 November 2017.
2017 STA Innovation Awardees
28 November 2017
The 2017 STA Annual Conference & Innovation Awards was also the occasion to honour global innovators in the following categories:
Person of the Year: highlighting the achievements of exceptional individual accomplishment.
Best Innovation Project/Solution: underscoring teamwork that is breaking the existing paradigms for transportation infrastructures.
The 2017 Person of the Year award was conferred ex-aequo to Mr Andreas Rumkus and Prof Vittorio Giavotto.
The project that stood out for the 2017 Best Innovation Project Award was: SMEV: Digital Optimisation of Traffic Conditions for Emergency Vehicles.
STA’S Technical Sub-Committee on Road Restraint Systems meets in Brussels on 28 November 2017
28 November 2017
The STA’s Technical Sub-Committee on Road Restraint Systems (TC2), featuring some of the most renowned road safety barrier experts in Europe, met in Brussels on 28 November 2017.
frontierCities2 MAG2 Call announced at Incubation BootCamp (Málaga, Spain 28-29 November 2017)
29 November 2017
STA joined frontierCities2 partners and start-ups at the FIWARE Tech Summit in Málaga, Spain on 28 - 29 November 2017 for the 2nd FI-TECH & MAG BootCamp.
“Transport infrastructure changes a community. We need a cultural gear change in the way that we look at urban infrastructure.”
NEWS OF INTEREST
H2020 Masterclass, 4th edition (Brussels, 11 – 12 December 2017)
The H2020 Masterclass: How to develop successful H2020 proposals in the Mobility, Energy & ICT sectors, organised by ISOM Business School in cooperation with New Frontier Services and S3Innovation, is a 2-day intensive course designed to respond to the professional development needs of stakeholders from both the profit and non-for-profit sectors looking to build successful H2020 projects.
7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (WCSCM) - Special Session on Highway Infrastructure Monitoring
Within the framework of 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (WCSCM) Prof Lo Presti (University of Nottingham) and Prof Lajnef (Michigan State University) will co-organise a special session Highway Infrastructure Monitoring. All interested businesses, academia, institutions and NGOs, are invited to submit their contribution to the special session.
Why sustainable mobility matters
In the 1960s, the vision of future mobility was people with jet packs and flying cars – we believed these innovations wouldn’t be far off after the moon landing in 1969. Obviously, the reality in 2017 is somewhat different.
Today, we have congestion in cities, rural areas cut off from the rest of the world, and too many people without access to safe, efficient, and green transport. This stifles markets and hinders people from the jobs that will help them escape poverty. Without access to sustainable mobility, it will be much harder—if not impossible— to end poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Making road traffic greener by boosting car-sharing and improving road quality
Uneven road surfaces cause braking and variable speeds both of which increase emissions, while low car occupancy rates mean duplicated journeys. An EU project is combining data from trip-sharing communities and phone sensors for feedback on road quality to make road travel greener.