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Category Archives: Infrastructure
Sustainable pavement
In VTI's road laboratory, test specimens of so-called ‘green’ asphalt are displayed on a bench. The asphalt is black in colour, but its properties make it better for the environment and climate than established asphalt mixtures, hence the name green asphalt. For example, the asphalt may last...
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Tagged bituminous mixture, green asphalt, LCM, life cycle management, road laboratory, test
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Study of infrastructure support and classification for automated driving on Finnish motorways
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency set a project to assess the feasibility of Finnish motorway section between Helsinki and Tampere on E12 highway for operation of SAE Level 3-4 automated vehicles, to propose a framework for service level classification for them and to prepare a proposal for...
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Posted in Infrastructure, Intelligent Transport Systems, Traffic and Traffic Control
Tagged automated driving, digitalisation, infrastructure, self-driving vehicles
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Smart streets
Posted in Infrastructure
Tagged multifunctional streets, road infrastructure, smart streets
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A venerable laboratory central to the development of research models
The oldest is the test road machine, which was built during World War II. It was initially used to find better solutions for gravel road constructions. Then came asphalt. The concrete coffers for the gravel road construction were turned upside down(!), and then the machine could be used to improve...
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Tagged asphalt, bituminous materials, laboratory, road material
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Wider roads can result in fewer accidents
Posted in Infrastructure, Safety
Tagged cross section, lane width, median, road safety, road width, roadside hazard, rural roads, shoulder width
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Megatrends are shaping future streets
The streets of the future have high demands to meet, in terms of both technical design and construction. Researchers from the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) are looking for smart solutions to meet four megatrends: Urbanisation, digitalisation, electrification and...
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Posted in Infrastructure, Maintenance
Tagged infrastructure, multifunctional streets, road construction, smart streets
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TRA VISIONS 2020
TRA VISIONS is a contest for young and senior researchers in the field of transport in Europe. It is organised every other year on behalf of the European Commission in connection with the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference. VTI was a partner of the consortium that organised TRA VISIONS...
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Posted in Cycling, Economics, Energy and Fuel, Environment and Climate, Flight, Freight Transport, Human Behaviour and Attitudes, Infrastructure, Intelligent Transport Systems, Maintenance, Passenger Transport, Policy and Planning, Safety, Simulation, Traffic and Traffic Control, Vehicles
Tagged EU, European Commission, rail transport, TRA, TRA VISIONS, transport mode, Transport Research Arena
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A flexible and sustainable port network by adaptive port planning
Ports are complex systems that have always been evolving to satisfy new demands for their different layers of physical infrastructure, operation and management, and products and services. Under a volatile and rapidly changing environment, addressing uncertainties in the planning process increases...
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Posted in Infrastructure, Policy and Planning
Tagged adaptive port planning, port, sustainability
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Evolution Road – new electric road tested both inside and out
In the beginning of May, the next-generation electric road was inaugurated in the city of Lund in southern Sweden. Ground based conductive charging technology will be tested on a kilometre long stretch of electric road in the bus lane in Getingevägen. This means that the power comes from rails in...
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Posted in Energy and Fuel, Infrastructure
Tagged electric road, electric roads
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Measures for infrastructure climate adaptation requires prioritisation
The effect of climate change will result in more extreme weather events causing for example increased risk of floods, and landslides, which will result in great costs to society. Therefore, society needs to prepare for the consequences brought on by climate change, an effort that requires...
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Tagged climate, climate adaptation, climate change, extreme weather conditions, infrastructure
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