Happy Holidays!!

The Smart Transportation Alliance (STA) would like to take the opportunity of this end-of-the year newsletter to express to all our readers the warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful Holiday Season and for the New Decade!

2019 STA Annual Conference and Innovation Awards - Proceedings available

27 November 2019

The 4th edition of the STA Annual Conference & Innovation Awards was held again at the Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport of Belgium in Brussels last Tuesday 26 November 2019.

The event gathered 30+ key opinion leaders and business professionals from across Europe, to explore and exchange innovative ideas, new projects and practices in Smart Transportation Infrastructures.

NEWS OF INTEREST

Next SMARTI ETN 'Resilient Transport Infrastructure' training week to be held on 3-7 February 2020 in Melbourne (Australia)

12 December 2019

SMARTI ETN is organising a Training Week on Resilient Transport infrastructure at the premises of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Asphalt Road Research Board (ARRB) on 3-7 February 2020 (Mon-Fri) in Melbourne Australia.

UK: Wireless Vehicle Detection – More Cost-Effective, Durable and Quicker to Install Than Inductive Loops

TWM, which specialises in designing, manufacturing and installing innovative traffic control systems, has now launched an interactive sign designed to be situated in locations that are renowned for vehicle incidents and speeding vehicles, with a particular focus on speeding motorcyclists. The new product launch coincides with the new findings from the DfT revealing that out of 1,572 accidents cause by road environment conditions, 228 occurred due to inadequate or masked signs or road markings or the layout of the road, including a tight bend and a blind corner.

Canada: A new technology for building roads with geogrid innovation

The geogrid’s design works to optimize pavement thickness components, extend pavement life and stabilize soft ground conditions. “It’s a simple technology — a piece of plastic. But it’s more about the evolution of the product being used in road development,”. Since pavement failure is often due to ongoing displacement of materials supporting the road, installing geogrid to confine the aggregate, distribute the load and improve overall road stiffness also reduces upfront and future maintenance costs. “A road designed for 22,000 equivalent single axle loads or ESAL’s, extends to 123,000,” says Brocklehurst.

UK: Skanska wants to trial graphene asphalt on M25

Skanska is seeking to trial the use of graphene-enhanced asphalt on the M25 to combat potholes and carbon emissions. The contractor is in talks with Connect Plus to trial the asphalt on the M25. This could pave the way for more trials across the UK. Earlier this week Skanska laid fully recyclable, graphene-enhanced asphalt on a busy main road in Curbridge for Oxfordshire County Council– the first use of this material on a British road.