Slide Demonstrations

The demonstration area will be one of the highlights of TRA2022. Designed to accommodate a variety of demonstrations, the area has about 720 m² of indoor and 1000 m² of outdoor space. The demonstration area enables interactive showcases of state-of-the-art technology innovations for business partners, researchers, and industry stakeholders.

Road Condition Monitoring System for Vehicle Fleets

Organised by: ESRIUM – Safe and efficient roads project

 

Co-organisers: Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbh, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, ASFINAG Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen Finanzierungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, FH OO FORSCHUNGS & ENTWICKLUNGS GMBH, Evolit Consulting GmbH, ENIDE SOLUTIONS .S.L, NNG Software Developing and Commercial LLC, Politecnico di Milano

 

Description: Scanning the road surface is a surveyor’s task or the task of highly specialized and cost-intensive sensing vehicles. There are market companies operating individual scanner vehicles and offering the scanning service (see the business plan for these competitors). One innovation of the sensor platform will be the availability of a scanning system, which can easily be integrated into the customer’s vehicle fleet and creates measurements with little additional operational costs compared to the normal vehicle fleet operation. This way, data acquisition becomes cheaper, and the broad, multi-national deployment of sensor systems with equal quality becomes possible.

The Mobility Compass - exploring interdisciplinary research networks

Organised by: Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)

 

Description: The Mobility Compass is an open tool for improving networking and interdisciplinary exchange within mobility and transport research. It enables cross-database search for experts of specific research areas and their networks. At the presentation booth, you will get an in-depth look at how the tool works and also valuable tips on how to improve your visibility in research.

You ride, you earn

Organised by: BICIFICATION project

 

Co-organiser: Pin Bike

 

Description: BICIFICATION would like to demonstrate the patented system certifying urban bike rides tested in Summer 2022 in Braga (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey), and Tallinn (Estonia). Pin Bike, the technical leader of BICIFICATION, will install the Pin Bike sensor on a bike for the TRA visitors to try. If the kilometers registered by the sensor are aligned with those registered by the Pin Bike APP installed on the TRA visitors’ mobile phones, the Pin Bike dashboard will validate the session and allocate rewards to the riders. Local authorities and urban planners visiting TRA will be able to get a flavour of the data that the Pin Bike dashboard can collect and display, thus acknowledging its efficacy to shape data-driven policies and investments. The tests performed in Summer 2022 in Braga, Istanbul, and Tallinn in the framework of the BICIFICATION project prove that the technological solution provided by Pin Bike can easily serve the specific needs of different urban environments, thus representing an interesting innovation for other local authorities and urban planners visiting TRA 2022.

Live demonstration of i-DREAMS project real-time driver assistance and post-trip gamification technology

Organised by: i-DREAMS project

 

Co-organisers: IMOB UHAsselt, Barraqueiro Transportes S.A., CardioID, NTUA, Loughborough University, TUM, KFV, TUD, University of Maribor, DSS, Oseven, ETSC and POLIS

 

Description: Participants will be able to experience the power of the i-DREAMS real-time assistance technology in a driving simulator, and will be able to interact with different i-DREAMS technologies, such as the i-DREAMS smartphone app, the i-DREAMS web dashboard and view real-time output from the system. An i-DREAMS instrumented car and bus will be available outside the demonstration area. Short trips will be organized where visitors can see the system live in operation.

SAFE-UP: Proactive Safety System Demos

Orgamised by: the SAFE-UP project

 

Co-organiser: Applus+IDIADA, Aimsun, Audi, Autoliv, Bax & Company, Bosch, Cariad, CEA, CERTH, Chalmers University of Technology, Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge (ika) RWTH Aachen University, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Toyota Motor Europe, TNO, Technische Universität Dresden, Eindhoven University of Technology, UniFI: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Virtual Vehicle, ZF Group

 

Description: SAFE-UP will exhibit new prototypes of active and passive safety systems integrated into real vehicles. These vehicles can operate under adapted safety-critical scenarios demonstrating the functionality of the systems and their impact on road safety, either by avoiding or mitigating the effects of road injuries and fatalities. SAFE-UP strives to spread its gathered knowledge on road safety to a broad audience.

ACHILES enhanced AUDI Q2

Organised by: Achiles project

 

Co-organiser: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, TECNALIA, TTTech, TTTech Auto, CONTINENTAL, IKERLAN, ELAPHE, AUDI, Fraunhofer LBF, IDIADA

 

Description: The ACHILES project enhanced an AUDI Q2 battery electric vehicle with a more efficient E/E control architecture for a new generation of electric vehicles. The newly designed ACHILES powertrain is comprised of two motors, one for each front wheel, two inverters, one battery and a centralized control unit. The final and tested ACHILES Demo Vehicle weighs less, has increased autonomy and smoother dynamics for an overall lower cost. The ACHILES simulation set-up including the centralized computing platform as well as a selection of the innovative components (e.g. brake actuator, new wheel concept) will be exhibited.

Safe and Secure software updates for non-stop transport

Organised by: UP2DATE project

 

Co-organiser: IKERLAN, BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, MAGNETI MARELLI, CAF SIGNALLING, DLR, IAV, TTTech Auto AG

 

Description: The overall UP2DATE goal is to provide a new software paradigm for Safe and SEcure Over-the-Air software updates for Mixed-Criticality Cyber-Physical Systems (MCCPS). The paradigm has been implemented through a new software architecture that enables the runtime deployment of new (mixed‐criticality) applications remotely (patching existing functions or extending the functionality) in heterogeneous computing platforms. The demonstrator will enable the audience to know more details about UP2DATE solution, the results obtained in different use case (railway, automotive,…) and iterate with a research use case.

MobileCityGame - Exploring the Mobility Transition towards 2050 with Serious Gaming

Organised by: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

 

Co-organiser: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Takomat GmbH, Fraunhofer IOSB

 

Description: MobileCityGame offers an action impact experience for professionals and laypersons into city planning. It offers an intuitive frontend to introduce and visualize the complex interrelations, options, and limits of the design of urban mobility systems for citizens, educational institutions, science and urban planners. The users of MobileCityGame should thus gain playful insights into the options, limits, dependencies, and impacts of various urban mobility (policy) approaches. Urban decision-makers can also test and evaluate strategy and action options up to the year 2050 easily, quickly and cost-effectively. It thus complements common procedures for the preparation of transport development plans by adding a strategic and participatory component.

Innovative, safe electric kick-scooter and inflatable helmet

Organised by: DREEM project

 

Co-organiser: Three o’clock, Punch Torino and DREEM EU Project partners

 

Description: The DREEM eks is a new generation micro-mobility vehicle with many innovative features focused on safety and comfort. The collision alert system, thanks to a camera/sensor at the rear side of the scooter, ensures the possibility to see what happens behind and informs the driver about possible risky situations. The large deck, the rear turn indicators, the three large tires (10” front and 8” rear) and the availability of an on-demand inflatable helmet are also intended to improve safety. From a comfort perspective, the DREEM e-kickscooter can be folded and brought as a suitcase thanks to the front handle.

Our decarbonization journey: from ZEETUG to ZEEPORT

Organised by: Navtek Naval Technologies

 

Description: NAVTEK Naval Technologies has developed a series of electric tugboat designs with the first already accumulating more than 2 years of service. Gisas Power was the world’s first fully electric harbour tug, built to NAVTEK’s ZEETUG30 design. A key aspect of this project was deploying a quick-charging station to keep the zero-emissions electric tug in full operation. This infrastructure is available to charge electric-powered vessels in a port, including a fleet of ZEETUGs under construction at NAVTEK’s new shipyard Turkey.

Traffic Speed Deflectometer

Organised by: Greenwood Engineering

 

Description: Continuous bearing capacity measurements, replacing dangerous and traditionally point measurements as FWD. The unique TSD technology is developed by Greenwood Engineering and has initiated a shift of paradigm in global pavement engineering.

AWARD project overview

Organised by: AWARD H2020 – Scaling autonomous logistics

 

Co-organisers: EasyMile, Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG, Kamag Transporttechnik GmbH & Co.KG, Terberg Benschop BV, Dematic NV, DFDS A/S (DFDS), Cerema, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (VTT), AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Applied Autonomy AS (Applied Autonomy), DigiTrans GmbH (DigiTrans), ENIDE SOLUTIONS, S.L. (ENIDE), IRU PROJECTS ASBL, CARA, Navtech Radar Ltd – Short Name to Consortium Navtech, Business Upper Austria – OÖ Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH BIZ-UP, ITS Norway, LINZ CENTER OF MECHATRONIC (LCM), FH OOE FORSCHUNGS & ENTWICKLUNGS GMBH, Avinor, ADASKY LTD, Foresight Automotive Ltd., BRP-Rotax GmbH & CoKG “ROTAX”, CertX AG CertX, Ottopia Technologies Ltd., AUSTRIATECH – GESELLSCHAFT DES BUNDES FÜR TECHNOLOGIEPOLITISCHE MASSNAHMEN GMBH (ATE), Schenker & Co AG / DB Schenker, GIE FRANCE AVIATION CIVILE SERVICES (FRACS)

 

Description: The AWARD project (All-Weather Autonomous Real logistics operations and Demonstrations) will develop and enable a safe autonomous transportation system in a wide range of real-life use cases in a variety of different scenarios. This encompasses the development of an autonomous driving system (ADS) capable of handling adverse environmental conditions such as heavy rain, snowfall, and fog.

V_REX – Emission Free Offshore Transport

Organised by: V-Rex GmbH

 

Description: V-REX stands for a brand new and patented sailing technology for offshore transportation. Highly sophisticated and innovative sailing technology is transferred into a totally emission free cargo offshore transporter – the V-REX Cargo. The concept leads to high vessel-speeds which makes the product very interesting. More than that – once a V-REX Cargo is built, he will sail a whole lifetime without any energy from outside. Only wind and self-produced electric power by water- and wind-generators as well with photo voltaic will propel the vessel his entire lifetime. V-REX Cargo will transport goods under sail at far more than twice the speed than conventional cargo ships. The V-REX Cargo will be also able to load and unload the freight by itself even in very shallow waters.

The concept is going to be realized in 3 steps: 1) The very first step is to build a sport boat, showing the concept. Prototype is already built!; 2) The second step is a scale up version for offshore-racing and a pre-version of the third step; 3) The third step is the V-REX Cargo which can be used for very fast and emission free offshore transportation.

SMARTLAND by TELT and DEMOS HELSINKY

Organised by: TELT Lyon-Turin Tunnel Line project

 

Description: Smart Lands is a cartographic project designed around the idea of territories transforming their environmental, social and economic fragility by overturning growth paradigms. Based on this approach, TELT – the public promoter of the Lyon-Turin line on the TEN-T Mediterranean corridor – is engaged in developing strategies for a resilient and efficient mix of railways, cycle paths and long-distance hiking routes to bring Alpine valleys and metropolitan areas closer together.

Inclusive crash safety

Organised by: VTI – Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

 

 

Description: VTI presents the development of a set of Seat Evaluation Tools (SETs), an average female (50F) and male (50M) model/prototypes as vehicle seated occupants. The SETs are models of adult humans made for evaluation of the protective performance of vehicle seats in the event of a low severity rear impact, up to 24 km/h. A new set of evaluation tools have been developed for the analysis of occupant protection in low velocity rear collisions. Also, to enable comparison between the protection of the female and male part of the population, in addition to evaluation of the different injury preventing properties of car seats in these situations. This need is based on that the female part of the population is not, yet, represented in the models of the human used to assess the occupant safety of new cars. In addition, injury statistics shows that for several severe and fatal injuries females have a larger risk of these given the same crash circumstances. Welcome to meet the developers of the two-world unique Seat Evaluation Tools (SETs) and see the models. The project is carried out by VTI within the EU-funded project VIRTUAL. In the stand you can also, via VR, experience what it’s like to go with the bus of the future, a safer ride for everyone. An activity within the project Drive 2the Future, an EU-funded project within Horizon Europe.

An Iterative Risk Assessment Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in Pavement and Maintenance Strategies

Organised by: Maxint

 

Co-organiser: Technical University of Denmark

Description: This demonstration proposes an adaptive DSS (Decision Support System) on the basis of adaptivity to Climate change via a risk management framework. The solution uses reliable data from Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and other sources of uncertainties. With such combination, we can provide a framework that ensures robustness and real-time capabilities, immediately and long-term. Pavement at freezing temperatures exposed to warmer air over an extended period of time deteriorates and ultimately produces potholes. Streaming this type of information into decision-support tools is at the core of our solution.

Underground capsule pipeline logistic system – From a feasibility study and LEGO-model to a full-scale pilot installation in a city

Organised by: Omniloop, Varberg, Sweden

 

Description: An underground capsule pipeline logistic system is proposed for moving and storing everything that fits into a capsule with a diameter of 300 mm and a length of 500 mm, e.g., groceries, hot food, packages, letters, newspapers, personal items, and waste. Transport the last/first/mile/yard all the way to/from the user in apartments and at workplaces. Storing at specified temperatures in the pipes, reducing the need for storage space in buildings and enabling automatic retailing. This gives access to most items and services in a city district within 5 minutes. The feasibility study TRA paper nr 852 is displayed in the poster area. In one scenario, 30% less motor vehicle traffic and emission of carbon, particles, and noise compared with today. The payback time was one year, and the value of the freed street space was higher than the total investment cost. Circular flows with reusable packaging, cleaning, refurbishing, second-hand, borrowing, sharing, and recycling are made easier. Transport and storage services are preferable offered as a utility where the pipes are co-located with other utility infrastructures as water, sewage, gas, electricity, and fiber. Come and discuss how we together can establish a cluster of actors for taking the concept from a LEGO-model to a full-scale pilot installation in a city. We are working on a € 3 Million application for the EU-call Driving Urban Transition with deadline November 21.

Presentation of BIKINNOV - CTI - Center for Technology and Innovation

Organised by: Abimota

 

Description: The BIKINNOV – Bike Value Innovation Center – Association is a collective non-profit entity with legal personality. It operates specifically in the two-wheel industry (vertically), defined as vehicles that are or derive from the bicycle, regardless of the number of wheels and main source of propulsion. BIKINNOV exists for the production, dissemination and transmission of knowledge, oriented to companies in the sector of operation and to the creation of economic value, contributing to the pursuit of specialization objectives of the Portuguese two-wheel Industry: BIKINNOV provides technical and technological support to companies in the two-wheel sector, promoting the use of technology and innovation as tools for improving business competitiveness, increasing added value and qualifying supply, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). BIKINNOV operates in the intermediate space of the innovation system, fostering the development and integration of new processes, services or products based on scientific and technological knowledge and high added value.