VISION: Road Transport in Europe 2025 - FEHRL

Design and Production Systems
Developments in Infrastructure Provision
■ Develop novel methods of fast construction that minimise energy consumption and damage to the environment.
■ Develop innovative construction methods for relieving congestion "hot spots".
Develop an understanding of how capacity can be optimised over the life of the infrastructure by selection of
appropriate maintenance strategies.
■ Obtain a better understanding of the physical processes that cause deterioration and determine how these can be
monitored and controlled.
■ Develop improved maintenance techniques that are economically viable, have a longer life and can be applied
quickly under all weather conditions.
Develop methods than can be used to undertake a more comprehensive appraisal of sustainable performance so
that better inputs into whole-life cost models can be used.
Developments in Sensor Technology for Operation and Management of
the Network
■ Develop systems for real-time condition monitoring of roads and structures which enable their physical condition
and the loads and temperatures to which they are subjected to be recorded.
■ Develop methods for using the output from monitoring systems to control the loading on roads and structures.
Understand how sensors installed in vehicles can be used to provide information on the condition of the road.
Examine how new technologies such as remote methods for monitoring the network (eg satellite images, laser
scanning) can be used to provide information on the condition of the network - both static (road geometry) and
dynamic (temperatures, movements) - that is of value to the road operator.
● Develop systems that allow communication between vehicles and the road operator which give information on
conditions on the network (wet/dry, temperature) and location (road pricing, congestion).
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