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2_SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
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RESEARCH ORiENTATiON 2
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
QUALiTY, SAFETY
AND OPTiMiZATiON
IFSTTAR’s laboratories are innovating all the time in order
to make transport systems more environmentally friendly,
safer and better suited to increases and changes in mobility.
Automated driving systems, on-board road traffic incident
detectors, increasingly sophisticated route analysis techniques,
new materials, etc. − all in line with the principles of
sustainable development.
@ CONTACTS
ludovic.leclercq@ifsttar.fr
samuel.sellam@ifsttar.fr
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esearch Orientation 2 is characterized by its major contribution to the VERONESE project,
in particular by the introduction of collective actions involving such topics as green driving,
the use of communication and positioning technologies and the development of simulation
platforms. In 2011, the SERRES (1) and VERONESE (2) programmes continued to draw closer to
each other, which has helped bring together the research teams from the two former institutes
in order to tackle the issues of the sustainable management of road and rail traffic and user services, in the
context of technical developments or the analysis of behaviours. Research Orientation 2 brings together the
activities of five IFSTTAR research units (ESTAS, GRETTIA, LEOST, LESCOT, LPC) and three research units
that are managed jointly with other bodies (LEPSIS, LICIT, LIVIC).
Many of the laboratories involved in this Research Orientation have taken part, through the NEARCTIS European
network of excellence (overseen by IFSTTAR), in the development of converging inter-agency research
programmes focused on “cooperative systems”. IFSTTAR has also been involved, in the framework of
“Future Investments” in the creation of two Institutes: the IRT (Technological Research Institute)
RAILENEUM which is backed by the Lille Nord-de-France PRES and the i-Trans competitiveness
cluster, and the IEED VeDeCoM (Institute for Zero Carbon Communicating Vehicles and their
Mobility) which is backed by MOVEOTEC and the MOVEO cluster in the Paris Region.
(1) Road Operating Solutions that take account of the Environment and Safety.
(2) Towards Optimized Network Operation: Minimizing Nuisances, Limiting Energy Consumption, Maximizing
levels of Service, Preserving the Environment.
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