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Stimulus programmes
RESEARCH ORIENTATION 1
DEST - LTE
EEST (Energy, greenhouse effect and transport) : Methodology for quantifying
and appraising the greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants generated by the
transport sector.
LTE
TRANSECO : conducting a survey of current practice with regard to including
natural habitats in the socioeconomic appraisal of transport schemes and
beginning a process of reflection (theoretical and practical) on providing
compensation for the environmental damage caused by such schemes.
PESIMES : identifying the “sound equipment” used when investigating the
perception of situations of exposure to multiple sources of road and rail noise,
analyzing the value and limitations of experimental and survey methodologies
for studying this situation and finally identifying needs for future scientific
research to study perception in situations of exposure to multiple sources of
road and rail noise.
Acceptability of innovative vehicles.
LTN Satory
POWERPAC : Converter for a power fuel cell in the event of a failure: designing
a converter to connect two fuel cells electrically and permit degraded mode
operation if one of the fuel cells fails.
Electric vehicles: regenerative and dynamic braking.
RESEARCH ORIENTATION 2
LPC
Perception of the environment and operation at safety road-rail interactions:
improving safety at road-rail interactions.
Specific cross-cutting scientific measures in the framework
of the VERONESE programme.
The VERONESE programme is the outcome of a request from the DRI in 2009 to
respond to a recommendation from the Operational Committee of the Grenelle
Environment Summit in its final report of July 2008 with regard, in particular, to
“The central issue of optimizing the use of transport
infrastructure...”. This 4-year programme will end in 2012.
ESTAS - LEOST
ERTMS “European Rail Traffic Management System”: analysis of
the performance of the ERTMS communication subsystem and its impact
on railway capacity.
ESTAS - GRETTIA - LESCOT
Living lab train : building a platform for technology and observing the use of
on-board mobility assistance services.
ESTAS - GRETTIA
Optimizing energy consumption in the management of rail traffic: Developing
methods for optimizing energy consumption that take account of both operating
constraints and mechanical and energy constraints. The developed methods
will then be tested and validated with simulators such as Open-Track.
ESTAS - LEOST - LTN
Ontology (or ontologies) for evaluating the operating safety of track-guided
transport systems.
GRETTIA - LICIT - CETE Méditerranée
Evaluating the safety impacts of traffic management measures : proposing
optimized measures for managing peri-urban motorway traffic based on an
evaluation of the safety impacts of such measures.
GRETTIA - LVMT - DEST
Numerical modelling of urban dynamics: A survey of the current state of
knowledge in the area of simulation platforms and models for studying the
spatial form of present-day or future cities in relation to mobility issues.
LEOST - GRETTIA
Diag-Audio : considering the feasibility of a system for automatically detecting
certain defects in rail components based on the “auditive monitoring”
performed by train driving crews.
LEOST
Radio logicielle : The goal is to use an OPNET discrete event simulator to simulate
cooperative or non-cooperative wireless communications networks taking
account of the specific features of systems and applications. The targets are
communication applications for road safety in collaboration with the LIVIC
unit (PLATA project), communications applications for railway maintenance
and operation (the ANR-VTT project which is currently being set up) and
telecommunications control-command applications such as EURORADIO for
ERTMS in collaboration with ESTAS.
LESCOT - LEPSIS - LIVIC - LTE
Green driving: Green driving and the resources that are needed for its widest
possible implementation. For this it is necessary to study behaviours and
identify their characteristics as well as to understand how to help drivers save
energy when driving.
LICIT
QUATTRO : French mirror project for a transnational Franco-Austrian
collaborative project. The principal goal is to implement qualification
procedures for traffic data and standard (metric) tools for the qualitative
qualification of traffic information (in particular journey times, including
multimodal aspects).
LPC - CETE Lyon
Risques cyclistes : This study sets out to analyze accidents involving cyclists
in urban areas, identifying the different types of cyclist accident and where
they occur (at intersections, on bends, on straight sections of road, etc.)
and the other types of road users involved.
LPC - LVMT
Exploratory research to identify the principal determinants of route choice
among residents of the Paris region.
RESEARCH ORIENTATION 3
LBA
A study of the biomechanical characteristics of the colon and its variability.
Applications to traumatology.
LBMC
AQUARIUM “Advanced Quantification of Aortic Rupture for Injury Understanding
and Modelling”: a study of aortic injuries occurring in a car crash.
BIOPIE: Evaluating biomechanical criteria for prediction of shoulder discomfort.
RIBUS : Estimating the mechanical properties of ribs with the ultrasonic
technique.
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