Deliverable 2.3: « Roadmap towards use of good practice and new concepts in construction across the different transport modes »
CEREZO
Type de document
RAPPORT DE RECHERCHE
Langue
anglais
Auteur
CEREZO
Résumé / Abstract
The FOX project aims at identifying the potential and developing the functionality of all transport modes (road, air, rail and water) in order to form a holistic transport system for the future. The pro-ject started with the exploration of the state-of-the-art research and practices for all the single aspects of the life-cycle of transport infrastructure regarding construction, maintenance, inspection and end of life of the materials. This work was executed in the four technical Work Packages: Con-struction (WP2), Maintenance (WP3), Inspection (WP4), Recycling & Reuse (WP5). First of all, a state-of-the-art of cross-modal infrastructural research to be investigated was per-formed. It aimed at highlighting the issues related to each method/technology and trying to identi-fy methods which can be transferred to other modes. This work was detailed in deliverable D21. In a second step, the most promising methods for cross-modal development were identified and deeply analysed (see deliverable D2.2). Thus, five challenges, grouping around twenty practices, were identified. These challenges were validated by stakeholders during the second workshop held in Brussels in September 2016. The third step focused on the development of a roadmap for future research, development and implementation initiatives across the four modes. An internal workshop was held between the experts from IFSTTAR at the beginning of 2017. It aimed at identi-fying the R&D topics on each challenge as well as the barriers and synergy with the other work packages both in FOX and USE-iT projects. The results of this workshop were completed by the partners and finally it was decided to merge several challenges that covered similar meth-ods/technologies to obtain three main future research topics for the roadmap: Long-life construction materials and structures; Low-impact materials and structures; More-efficient construction and design methods. Each remaining challenge was then traduced through a 'vision' ('from' ... 'to). An analysis on their current statement ('from') and a suggestion on how to achieve the development of these meth-ods/technologies through the identification of R&D topics was performed. Additionally, a 'time-plan' was proposed. A common matrix with the project USE-iT was built up with icons representing modes, domains and level of applications. Finally, the roadmap proposed in this project highlights the benefits of a crossmodal transfer of various methods and technologies. This behaviour would help saving time in fundamentals re-search (concepts) but it will request both financial support to adapt them to other modes and polit-ical support to allow an implementation on real test-site despite the fear of network managers re-garding potential consequences of failure.
