Sustainable Pavements for European New Member States

Project Information

SPENS

Grant agreement ID: 31467

Start date 1 September 2006

End date 31 August 2009

Funded under

• Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 2 471 150,00

EU contribution € 1 299 443,00

Coordinated by

ZAVOD ZA GRADBENISTVO SLOVENIJE
Slovenia

Objective

The standard of the road infrastructure differs throughout the European Union member states. In general, the means of transportation are of a lower standard in the New Member States, but the present volume of heavy road transport requires a sustainable road infrastructure immediately. In most of the New Member States there is a constant need for new resistant pavement materials, that should comply with the EU regulations. Due to the priority of motorway construction, the standard of maintenance of other roads has lowered, resulting in an increased need for effective road maintenance and improvement over the years to come. The materials and technologies now used in the New Member States differ from those adopted in common practice in the EU-15. The research work will focus on developing procedures for producing and implementing materials for road construction, taking into account the tradition in the New Member States, the availability of materials and construction techniques, as well as the specifics of already constructed roads. This will be achieved by four technical work packages, which will deal with the optimization of assessment techniques and procedures for roads, the improvement of pavement structures and evaluation of materials for road upgrading, and the minimization of the impact of road traffic on the environment. The goal of all the technical work packages and transparent management is to produce practical guidelines or recommendations. Field trials and monitoring will be used to verify the research results. The wide dissemination of outcomes, as well as clustering of the research work, will be a task of great importance. The consortium is composed mainly of experts from the New Member States in order to ensure that the research will be focused on issues relevant to the New Member States.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › clinical medicine › physiotherapy
• social sciences › social geography › transport
• engineering and technology › civil engineering › transportation engineering › highway engineering

Programme(s)

• FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SUSTDEV-2005-3.2.2.2.4 - Research domain 2.2 (only for a new generation of products and systems in waterborne transport), research domain 2.3 (for all types of transport vehicles and vessels excluding passenger cars), research domain 2.4 and research domain 2.6.
• SUSTDEV - Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-TRANSPORT-4
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

ZAVOD ZA GRADBENISTVO SLOVENIJE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Dimiceva 12 ; LJUBLJANA ; Slovenia
• Total cost: No data

Participants (9)

KÖZLEKEDÉSTUDOMÁNYI INTÉZET KHT.

Hungary

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Thán Károly u. 3-5 ; BUDAPEST
• Total cost: No data

STATENS VÄG-OCH TRANSPORTFORSKNINGSINSTITUT

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Olaus Magnus väg 35 ; LINKÖPING
• Total cost: No data

ÖSTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGS- UND PRÜFZENTRUM ARSENAL GES.M.B.H.

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Glefinggasse 2 ; VIENNA
• Total cost: No data

CENTRUM DOPRAVNIHO VÝZKUMU

Czechia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Lisenska 33a ; BRNO
• Total cost: No data

INSTYTUT BADAWCZY DRÓG I MOSTÓW, ROAD AND BRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Poland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Jagiellonska 80 ; WARSAW
• Total cost: No data

ZILINSKÁ UNIVERZITA V ZILINE

Slovakia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Univerzitna 8215/1 ; ZILINA
• Total cost: No data

FORUM OF EUROPEAN NATIONAL HIGHWAY RESEARCH LABORATORIES

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Boulevard de la Woluwe 42 ; BRUSSELS
• Total cost: No data

DDC SVETOVANJE INZENIRING, DRUZBA ZA SVETOVANJE IN INZENIRING, D.O.O.

Slovenia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Kotnikova 40 ; LJUBLJANA
• Total cost: No data

FERRIERE NORD S.P.A.

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ZONA INDUSTRIALE RIVOLI ; OSOPPO (UDINE)
• Total cost: No data