1. New Road Construction Concepts
Towards reliable, green, safe & smart and
human infrastructure
Waseem Ahmad Dar (Woxin)
Id 2093195
Associate Prof. Dr. Yao Shan
2. 同济大学交通运输工程学院 COLLEGE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING, TONGJI UNIVERSITY
A vision reflecting society’s perception of road infrastructure in
the year 2040 forms the basis of NR2C’s aim to identify and specify
the research required in the field of road engineering to guarantee
comfortable and reliable ground transport in a sustainable and
environmental-friendly way for the coming decades.
The presentation of the vision, of its four concepts - reliable,
green, safe and smart, and human of the corresponding
identified developments required constitutes and presentation
of some specific innovations developed in NR2C.
New Road Construction Concepts
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PART A - From vision to developments
required
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NR2C specific innovations are presented as follows:
• Towards more human infrastructure.
• Towards greener infrastructure.
• Towards more reliable infrastructure.
• towards safer and smarter infrastructure.
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New Road Construction Concept : Vision 2040
Characteristics Construction Concepts
Available Durable Reliable Reliable Infrastructure
Energy efficient Sustainable
Environment
Green Infrastructure
Accessible Smart Safe Safe&Smart Infrastructure
Multi-functional Multi usable
Public security
Human Infrastructure
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Its objectives
1 firstly, to provide long term perspectives for the road infrastructure
(vision 2040), which reconciles future transport needs, expected
users and social demands, and sustainability goals; this means to
develop new concepts for the road of the future (high quality, cost-
effective, low noise, environmentally friendly, safer, risk mitigating,
low maintenance, while facilitating traffic mobility and inter-
modality).
2 secondly, to implement concrete short term actions by developing
specific innovations that will support this long term vision, these
innovations being relevant to three fields : urban infrastructure,
interurban infrastructure and civil engineering structures.
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NR2C has selected a number of projects as
Developments required,
• New age binder design technologies.
• Integrated models of urban (human) design.
• Lifetime engineering for roads.
• Asset management tools.
• Modular prefabricated pavements.
• Low temperature asphalt with reclaimed asphalt.
• Bridge eco-assessment.
• TYROSAFE: optimizing tyre-road interaction.
• Energy controlled pavements.
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Design-models
For Multimodal
Streets
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Ecotechnic Road System (ERS)
a concept of an integrated infrastructure, based on the most
innovative technologies in order to minimize globally pollution and
disturbance due to traffic (noise, vibrations, air and water pollution).
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Ecotechnic Road System
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The nuisance mitigating road infrastructure solutions defined as
ERS, are composed by three subsystems.
• Pavements subsystem (i.e. resilient, resonant and reservoir pavements).
• Barriers subsystem (i.e. anti noise, air pollutant, safety and green barriers).
• Auxiliary subsystem (i.e. air cleaning unit, ventilation unit, ground catalyser,
photo catalytic material and TiO2 coating).
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ROAD BARRIERS
Innovative integrated
(anti-noise & safety)
barrier
Innovative integrated
reclining barrier
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Innovative integrated
covers (acoustical
modeling, crash &
acoustical, operation)
Innovative barrier prototype
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A complete detailed design has been done for two solutions respectively for rural/suburban
and for urban environments, whose global quality efficiency regarding nuisance mitigation.
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PART B - Some specific innovations
developed in NR2C
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Innovation:-Design of high performance underlayers with
low cost materials and high percentage of re-use
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Innovation :- Improving the mechanical properties of a low
noise
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Element of sandwich slab with lightweight concrete
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Element of structure combining timber beams, slab UHPFRC,
and FRP at the bottom of the wooden beams
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Reliable Infrastructure
• Lifetime engineering
• Fast hindrance free maintenance
• Balancing demand and capacity
• Balancing demand and capacity
• Asset management tools
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Green Infrastructure
• Saving Natural Resources
• Emission Control
• Low Temperature Asphalt With Reclaimed Asphalt
• Bridge Eco-assessment
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Safe and Smart Infrastructure
• Safe Design
• Smart Design
• Smart Communication
• Smart Monitoring
• Optimising Tyre-road Interaction
• Energy Controlled Pavements
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Human Infrastructure
• Public security.
• Multi-functional use.
• Human design.
