2022 Results:
Young Researcher Competition
TRA VISIONS 2022 RESULTS
The TRA VISIONS 2022 Young Researchers Competition targets students at universities and technical institutes pursuing bachelor and higher degrees, as well as early career PhD researchers.
Initially, participants are invited to submit an abstract under one of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference Topics (Call for Ideas). This is the registration period where all the participants are invited to register their ideas, and submit a title and a short abstract of their ideas. The participants then usually have a three-month period to further develop their proposals into a final project following a very clear template (Submission of Ideas). This is normally followed by an Evaluation of Ideas period, divided into two steps- a first remote evaluation by two evaluators and a second step in which the SHORT LISTed ideas (10 per mode) are evaluated by a judging panel during the SHORT LISTing Event in which the three top ideas per mode (road, rail, waterborne and crossmodality) are identified. The winner certificates and the prizes are awarded at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference during a prestigious award ceremony.
The TRA VISIONS Consortium works closely with the organisers of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference in order to ensure that the competitions have maximum exposure and impact during the conference and beyond. To ensure the active and large participation of students and early stage researchers, an extensive and well planned “promotion phase” is carried out.
DOWNLOAD TRA VISIONS 2022 CONTEST BOOK
The TRA VISIONS 2022 winners were awarded on 14th of November during the Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2022 conference in Lisbon. The book was prepared by the TRA VISIONS 2022 consortium and was designed and directed by Ms. Micol Biscotto, project manager at Deep Blue ltd, Mr. Carlo Abate, consultant and Ms. Chiara Muccitelli, graphic designer at the same company and Mr. George Smyrnakis, Secretary General of WEGEMT with the support of Prof. Alistair Greig (UCL).
ROAD AWARD WINNERS
1st. ProtectPav, the Protective Pavement for Vulnerable Road Users
ALMAMATER UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA (ITALY)
Team: Christina Makoundou
2nd. Autonomous Vehicle Learning-based Model Predictive Controller
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM)
Team: Michael Dodman, Chuanshang Yin, Kuorun Liu
3rd. Network Level Bridge Health Monitoring using In-Vehicle Sensors & Machine Learning
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Team: Robert Corbally
SPONSORS ROAD
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
- Generating and Updating Geometric Digital Twins for Highways
Diana Davletshina
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) - Digiways – Digitalisation of Highway Traffic, Air Pollution and Operations based on CPS
Hao Luo Wang, Andrei David Radu
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) - Modelling an Integrated Approach for Policy Evaluation towards Sustainable Mobility Adaptation
Samaneh Bahreini
University of Liege (Belgium) - Porous Asphalt Mixtures: the First Barrier for Microplastic Pollution?
Helena Miera-Dominguez, Dario Prieto-Quintana
Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
- Privacy-preserving, Trajectory-based Intersection Safety Assessment
Yiru Jiao
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) - DRIPRAI: Driver Profiling by Artificial Intelligence
Andrés Laverde Marìn
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) - Evaluation of Additives for the Improvement of Low Noise Asphalt Mechanical Performances
Ahmed Al-Dbei
BFH – Bern University (Switzerland)
SUBMITTED PROJECTS
- Human Factors-Ready Behavioral Models for Automated Vehicles
- A Five-step Design Tool - Creating Appropriate Trust in Automated Vehicles (AV)
- Analysis of V2X Performance and Rollout Status with a Special Focus on Austria
- Artificial Intelligence applied to Road Pavement Management
- Automated Text Analysis on Open-Ended Response Surveys: Measuring Attitudes Regarding Autonomous Vehicles
- Monocular cues-based ontology reasoning for autonomous vehicles depth estimation
- Implementing Human Valence into the Behavioral Model of Fully Autonomous Vehicles
- GPS phone locations for real-time traffic lights algorithm
- BOON: Behaviour Oracle for always-ON electrical mobility
- Smart Mobility Management and Operation under Tradable Credit Scheme
- Sustainable Concrete Mix Practice
- An Intelligent Visual Traffic Monitoring System from a Moving UAV
- Moving road to rail - automatic comparison of long-haul transport plans
- A ‘Design for Perception’ Toolkit - A systematic approach for the design of driving automation systems based on the users’ perception
- Emilia 4 ST - A solarpowered lab on wheels
- Learning an Explicit Model Predictive Controller for highway ramp metering employing Variational Autoencoders
- Fractional Vehicle Ownership and Revenue Generation with Asset Tokenisation
- Urban logistics transportation system combining passenger and freight flows
RAIL AWARD WINNERS
1st. T-Vision: A Hybrid Subsurface Radar Inspection System For Intelligent Asset Management of Railway Tunnels
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY (UNITED KINGDOM)
Team: Thomas McDonald
2nd. AI applications for railway positioning and autonomous trains
KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SWEDEN)
Team: Benjamin Smakic
3rd. The Detection of Squats (rail defects) using Existing Data Sources
GRAZ UNIVERSITY (AUSTRIA)
Team: Markus Loidolt
SPONSORS RAIL
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
SUBMITTED PROJECTS
WATERBORNE AWARD WINNERS
1st. A rapid assessment tool for the evaluation of ship hard grounding
AALTO UNIVERSITY (FINLAND)
Team: Ghalib Humayan Taimuri
2nd. Trustworthy Autonomous Collision Avoidance Decision-Making System for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (UNITED KINGDOM)
Team: Paul Lee
3rd. Investigating Hydrokinetic Energy Recovery in Wind-Assisted Warships
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM)
Team: Chris Greenhough
SPONSORS WATERBORNE
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
SUBMITTED PROJECTS
AIRBORNE AWARD WINNERS
1st. Airmobile Fire-fighting Complex
RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, MTAF FACULTY (LATVIA)
Team: Gleb Panfilov, Juri Lukanov, Emils Aliks
2nd. V.AIR
UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE (ITALY)
Team: Nicola Cavagnetto, François Brambati, Marco Fusar Poli
3rd. Exploring trends of D2D Air Travel in Europe
OTTO BEISHEM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT – WHU (GERMANY)
Team: Ulrike Schmalz
SPONSORS AIRBORNE
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
SUBMITTED PROJECTS
CROSS MODALITY AWARD WINNERS
1st. Modelling the impacts of real-time crowding information in public transport
CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (POLAND)
Team: Arkadiusz Drabicki
2nd. Development of a DSS and prioritization of criteria for synchromodality in transport operations.
ZARAGOZA UNIVERSITY (SPAIN)
Team: Shaghayegh Rahnama
Context-aware Learning from Heterogenous Traffic Data Sources: Exploring Cross-Modal Synergies
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO (PORTUGAL)
Team: Rui Henriques
SPONSORS CROSS MODALITY
SHORTLISTED PROJECTS
SUBMITTED PROJECTS
AWARD CEREMONY AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH ARENA (TRA) 2022 IMPRESSIONS
