The report examines the role of technology and smart engineering in addressing issues arising from the growth in traffic.

Well-recognised tools have been developed/used to assess the viability of transport infrastructure investments such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) which compare the costs of delivery and operation/maintenance to benefits generated by the infrastructure. Other techniques consider the environmental and social impacts of project alternatives such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) and social life-cycle assessment (SLCA).

Preceded by a Consortium meeting on 18 September, STA hosted the Mobilisation Bootcamp of the EU-funded fC2 Accelerator in its Brussels office from 19 to 22 September 2017.

This one-day landmark event brings together key opinion leaders and business professionals to explore the current state and future of Smart Transportation Infrastructures across modes and the Smart City in a unique and dynamic atmosphere.

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).

This one-day landmark event brings together key opinion leaders and business professionals to explore the current state and future of Smart Transportation Infrastructures across modes and the Smart City in a unique and dynamic atmosphere.

The 2017 STA Annual Conference will be coupled with the award ceremony of the 2nd edition of the ‘STA Annual Innovation Awards’.

For the 2nd time this year, the STA members participated in a General Meeting and reviewed the progress made over the agreed 2017 work plan.

TRANSPOLIS is the unique smart city lab in Europe dedicated to innovative transportation systems and road equipment.

On 13 and 14 June 2017, representatives of the public sector, engineering companies and road safety associations met in Yaoundé, Cameroon, for a two-day Road Safety Technical Forum.