Project description
Improved road safety and maintenance
Road wear poses a significant and complex challenge for infrastructure maintenance, often leading to frequent and high costs. Unfortunately, few solutions currently address this issue, and the lack of monitoring options further exacerbates the problem. The EU-funded ESERCOM-D project will provide a solution for early detection and mapping of road wear, helping to reduce costs and extend the lifespan of roads. The project will implement a demonstrable service that promotes green and smart road usage while increasing road safety, optimising road maintenance and establishing an automation chain that spans from road condition monitoring to smart decision-making.
Objective
Road wear stands as a pervasive challenge and a significant financial burden in infrastructure upkeep. Detecting and mapping road wear early and in detail can alleviate these costs and simultaneously extend the lifespan of road surfaces. The project team successfully finalised the EGNSS-project ESRIUM (TRL 6) in November 2023, identified necessary technological and standardisation steps for entering into the market and targets this tender as an optimal window-of-opportunity for doing so. The overall objective of ESERCOM-D is to facilitate standardization efforts through the implementation of a demonstrable service (TRL 8), which fosters greener and smarter road usage, optimizes road maintenance, and increases road safety. In doing so, the automation of the complete chain from road condition monitoring to smart decision making will be demonstrated.
Moreover, the project seeks to establish, contact and create liaison with key standardization bodies and expand the utilization of EGNSS in the road and automotive industry. The goals emphasize the importance of aligning developments with international industry-accepted certification and standardization schemes.
Through comprehensive testing and validation in real-life environments, ESERCOM-D aims to provide proof of concept demonstrators for standardization concepts, ensuring the sustainable impact and widespread acceptance of its outcomes. The project's commitment to transparency, user acceptance assessment, and fostering sustainable impact underscores its excellence in addressing current challenges and pushing the boundaries of the state of the art in road wear assessment and maintenance.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. This project's classification has been validated by the project's team.
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- social sciencessociologygovernancepublic services
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processing
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transportintelligent transport systems
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8010 Graz
Austria